awmous

He compassionates the poor, and would give the beggar an "awmous"; but measures which would prevent begging, which would place the means of a comfortable subsistence in hands of all men, so that there should be no poor, he apparently contemplates not without horror.

Wordsworth, the _Lyrical Ballads_, and Literary and Social Reform in Nineteenth Century America 1999

They were just decent bien bodies; ony poor creature that had face to beg got an awmous, and welcome — they that were shamefaced gaed by, and twice as welcome.

Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

I remember her well; —every week she paid my father a visit for her awmous, when I was a little boy, and I looked upon Madge with no common degree of awe and terror.

Introduction to Guy Mannering (1829) 1917

—‘Many’s the awmous your house has gi’en Meg and hers—and she has lived to pay it back in a small degree; ’—and she placed the purse in his hand.

Chapter XXVIII 1917

The farmer’s dame lacked her usual share of intelligence, —perhaps also the self-applause, which she had felt while distributing the awmous (alms) in shape of a gowpen (handful) of oatmeal to the mendicant who brought the news.

Chapter VI 1917

Wilson for an awmous, streeking out her auld hand for charity.

The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885

Forbye, here they say that a man who prays and gies awmous, and keeps frae wine, is sicker to win to Paradise and a 'the houris.

A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

I'll gae down with Saunders Mucklebackit --- he has aye a soup o 'something comfortable about his begging --- and, bairns, I'll maybe live to put ilka ane o' ye in mind some ither night that ye hae promised me quarters and my awmous; '' and away he went with the fisherman.

The Antiquary 1845

` ` I thank ye for your awmous, '' said Ochiltree, pocketing the piece of money; ` ` but I beg your pardon, Mr. Taffril --- I canna gang your errand e'en now. ''

The Antiquary 1845

A lodging, such as it was, was readily granted to them in some of the out-houses, and the usual awmous (alms) of a handful of meal

The Antiquary 1845