yill

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Here's to ye in the meantime; and 'am no savin' but this yill is just richt gude drink; it warms the pit o' the stamach, man You mane by that the pit o' the stomach, I suppose Ay, just that Troth, Mr. Malcomson, you Scotchers bring everything to the pit o' the stomach--no, begad, I ax your pardon, for although you take care of the pratie bag, you don't forget the pocket And what for no, Andy?

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  1. A Scotch form of ale. Her bread it's to bake, Her yill is to brew. Bonnie Earl o' Murry (Child's Ballads, VII. 122). The clachan yill had made me canty. Burns, Death and Dr. Hornbook.

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  • I thought it would never be over; but, at the second hour of the morning, I heard a wee squeel, and knew that I was a father; and so proud was I, that notwithstanding our loss, Lucky Bringthereout and me whanged away at the cheese and bread, and drank so briskly at the whisky and foot-yill, that, when she tried to rise and go away, she could not stir a foot. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • I thought his inside would have jumped out; but he fell sound asleep in two or three minutes; and we jogged on till we came to the yill-house door, where, after louping out, we got a pickle pease-strae to Tammie's horse CHAPTER FOURTEEN--MANSIE AND TAMMIE AT MY LORD'S RACES It happened curiously that, of all the days of the year, this should have been the one on which the Carters'-play was held; and, by good luck, we were just in time to see that grand sight. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • Here's to ye in the meantime; and 'am no savin' but this yill is just richt gude drink; it warms the pit o' the stamach, man You mane by that the pit o' the stomach, I suppose Ay, just that Troth, Mr. Malcomson, you Scotchers bring everything to the pit o' the stomach--no, begad, I ax your pardon, for although you take care of the pratie bag, you don't forget the pocket And what for no, Andy? —  Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • "Anent the yill," said Betty The ale!" —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829
  • He ordered Donald to accompany me, giving as his reason: "For he kens the English fine when the spirit of understanding is on him, and ye'll easy get it on him by raxing him a crack in the wame, same as ye did back yonder at the yill-house The Highlander maintained the expression of a wooden doll throughout this explanation, but, as I leaped hard after him across the brook, I overtook a grin on his face that promised well for my future entertainment She pe recovert," he said. —  The Yeoman Adventurer
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