laigh

American  

[leykh] / leɪx /

adjective

1. low.

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noun

1. a small valley or hollow.

Etymology

Origin of laigh

1325–75; Middle English (Scots). See low ¹

Example Sentences

I’ll set me down and sing and spin, While laigh descends the simmer sun, Blest wi’ content, and milk and meal— O leeze me on my spinning-wheel!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

"Without, afore the stair steps, Or laigh on the cawsway stane, And there may lye Sir Dyr�, For ither bed we've nane."

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various

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 Bell, Henry Glassford

Every land has its laigh; every corn has its ain caff.

From The Proverbs of Scotland by Hislop, Alexander

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis