rowth

British

/ raʊθ /

noun

a variant spelling of routh

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I will play the “Cumhadh na Cloinne” Wildest of the rowth of tunes Gathered by the love of mortal From the olden druid runes.

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There's rowth a parcels for ye at John Sharpe's door, yonder.

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In a letter, hitherto unpublished, addressed to his friend Andrew Gibb, who appears to have resided at or near West Linton, he remarks: 'I have rowth of good reading to wile my heart from grieving o'er what cannot be mended now,—the sale o' our unhappy country to the Southron alliance by a wheen traitors, who thought more o' Lord Somers' gold than Scotland's rights.

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Leave to the gods your ilka care; If that they think us worth their while, They can a rowth o' blessings spare, Which will our fashous fears beguile.'

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We have had crackit heids—and rowth of them—ere now; and we have had a broken leg, or maybe twa; and the like of that we drover bodies make a kind of a practice like to keep among oursel’s.

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