gleg

And they warna lost upon her, for she had aye a gleg ee for a horse.

A' the Morays are gleg, and yon marquis has an ee like a hawk.'

He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.

Any boy more 'gleg at the uptak' would have met his parents half-way, and eased their burden.