An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 589
/An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 589
OSTRYE, OSTRe, _s._ An inn.
_Wallace._
Ital. _hostaria_, Fr. _hostelerie_, id.
OTHEM UPOTHEM, cold flummery, used instead of milk, with boiled flummery, Aberd.; q. _of them_, as well as _upon them_.
OTHIR, OTHIRE, ODYR, _adj._
1. Other.
_Wyntown._
2. The second, also _tothir_.
_Wyntown._
3. Each other, S.
_Wyntown._
OTHIR, OWTHYR, _conj._ Either, S.
Isl. _audr_, Germ. _oder_, id.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.d._
~Othir~, _adv._ Besides.
_Douglas._
~Othirane~, _conj._ Either, _etherane_, _etherins_, S.
_Wallace._
OTTER-PIKE, _s._ The common weever.
_Sibbald._
OUER, OUIR, OVIR, _adj._
1. Upper, _uvir_, S. B.
_Douglas._
2. Superior, as to power. The _uvir hand_, the upper hand, S. B.
Su. G. _oefwerhand_, id.
_Wyntown._
~Ouerance~, _s._ Superiority.
_Abp. Hamiltoun._
OUER, _prep._ Over.
V. ~Our~.
OUER ANE, _adv._ In common.
_Al ouer ane_, all together.
_Douglas._
_To_ OVERBY, _v. a._ To procure indemnity from justice by money.
_Priests Peblis._
_To_ OURFLETE, _v. n._ To overflow.
Teut. _over-fleit-en_, superfluere.
_Doug._
OUERFRETT, _part. pa._ Embroidered.
A. S. _fraet-wan_, ornare.
_Douglas._
OUERHEDE, _adv._ Without distinction, S.
_ourhead_, in the gross.
_Douglas._