almous

[ah-muhs, aw-muhs]

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. alms.

Word History and Origins

Origin of almous¹

1250–1300; Middle English almus < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse ǫlmusa alms

Example Sentences

Also he set on fire Provost Cockburn’s mill of corn, by taking three stalks from his stacks, and burning them on Garleton Hills; and he owned to a deadly hatred against Lady Ormiston, because she once refused him “ane almous,” and called him “ane custroune carle.”

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"Hech, sirs!" she then said; "and has it come to this, that a minister of the Gospel is obligated to beg an almous frae Janet Armstrong?"

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Airt, direction, point of the compass. almous, alms. atwish, betwixt. aught, possession. aumrie, store-cupboard.

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In 1630 Alexander Hamilton was tried in Edinburgh, 'the said Alexr Hamiltoun haifing concaivet ane deidlie haitrent agains umqle Elizabeth Lausone Lady Ormestoun younger becaus the said Alexr being at her zet asking for almous she choisit him therfra saying to him "away custroun carle ye will get nothing heir".

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Nevertheless, I walked about from door to door like a dejected beggar, till I got the almous deed of a civil reception—and who would have thought it?— from no less a person than the same Thomas Thorl that was so bitter against me in the kirk on the foregoing day.

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