laigh
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of laigh
1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low 1
Example Sentences
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The second guide was "laigh down in Borthwick water."
From Sir Walter Scott and the Border Minstrelsy by Andrew Lang
They flew laigh and heavy, an’ squawked to ither as they gaed; and it was clear to Mr. Soulis that something had put them frae their ordinar.
From Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson
Out cam the gudeman, and laigh he louted; Out cam the gudewife, and heigh she shouted; And a the toun-neibours gather’d about it; And there he lay, I trow.
From The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith by Charles Martin Hardie
He hirpled up by the links and the lane, And chappit laigh in the back-door-stane.
From New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Then she said the Queen was over heigh, and that herself was neither over heigh nor over laigh.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
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