maistly

So, perhaps, that "maistly" may be the claim to be a

Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

"If a man runnin 'like that Gilchrist can blurt oot the news and keep runnin', it's maistly truth, but if he stops and begins to walk, and twist his mouth before he speaks, he's makin 'lies," said McKinnon, and turned himself in the water.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

"That's just what I cannot say, for the lads think ye're no 'canny some way, but maistly because the weemen hiv them under their thumbs, so I'm thinkin' it must just have been Hamish."

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

An 'I were maistly ashamed o' misel, for I didn't knaw their ways;

Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895

The second was ane Lapraik, whom the folk ca'd Tod Lapraik maistly, but whether for his name or his nature I could never hear tell.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

"Ax them what they mak 'of him' at spent four days in Lunnon and came back another man -- ax the women-folk; they're maistly reet, I reckon."

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

He is under some obligations to me, and the _Good Intent_ -- weel, she's maistly my ain.

Patsy 1887

'Aa came in at tea-time, an' she's been maistly taakin 'ivver sence!'

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'Aa came in at tea-time, an' she's been maistly taakin 'ivver sence!'

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

"On Sauchiehall Road, and the crescents further on, away maistly up to Kelvin Grove."

A Daughter of Fife Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875