lyard
adjective
streaked or spotted with gray or white.
lyart
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a variation of
lyard.
Example Sentences
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His hair, lyart and long, fell upon his shoulders.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
For tho' his locks be lyart grey, And tho' his brow be beld aboon, Yet I hae seen him on a day, The pride of a' the parishen.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
In hairst, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering, Bandsters are lyart, and runkled, and gray: At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching— The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In har'st, at the shearing, nae youths now are jeering, Bandsters are lyart, and runkled, and gray; At fair or at preaching, nae wooing, nae fleeching— The Flowers of the Forest are a' wede away.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
He greeted the carline and lasses sae braw, And his bare lyart pow sae smoothly he straikit, And he looket about, like a body half glaikit, On bonny sweet Nanny, the youngest of a'.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
