dowie
Americanadjective
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Whan bugles frae the Castle rock, An’ beaten drums wi’ dowie shock, Wauken, at cauld-rife sax o’clock, My chitterin’ frame, I mind me on the kintry cock, The kintry hame.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Ye manna put on the black, the black, Nor yet the dowie brown; But the scarlet sae red, and the kerches sae white,75 And your bonny locks hangin' down."
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
Others would bawl out, Wa Tebeeb washka't dowie elmoot, i.e.
From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson
But he hadna been out an hour, when ane o’ my brothers-in-law called, and I thought he looked unco dowie.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
My father's shieling on the hill Is dowie now and sad; The breezes whisper round me still, I 've lost my Highland lad.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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