different between lyard vs lyart
lyard
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lyart
Etymology
From Old French liart or Latin liardus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?li?.ard/, /?li?.art/
Adjective
lyard
- (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
- Þat was wel twi?t, myn owene lyard boy. / I pray God save þee, and Seinte Loy!
- late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale:
Noun
lyard
- a horse which is dappled and spotted in the aforementioned way
- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
- Be the luef, be the loht, sue Edward, / Thou shalt ride sporeless o thy lyard,
- c. 1370-1390, William Langdon, The Vision of Piers Plowman, 1882, Thomas Wright (editor), The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2, page 352:
- Ac so soone so the Samaritan / Hadde sighte of this leode, / He lighte a-down of lyard,
- c. 1264, unknown author, Richard of Almaigne, quoted in 1856, Thomas Percy (editor), Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, page 172:
See also
- bayard
Anagrams
- Daryl
- lardy
Scots
Adjective
lyard
- Alternative spelling of lyart
- 1778, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (edited by Tobias George Smollett):
- In har'st at the shearing, nae swankies are jeering,
- Our bansters are wrinkled and lyard and grey:
- At a fair or a preaching, nae wooing nae fleetching, […]
- 1778, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature (edited by Tobias George Smollett):
lyard From the web:
lyart
Scots
Etymology
From Old French liart or Latin liardus.
Adjective
lyart
- (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
- 1853, Walter Watson, Poems and Songs: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
- Yet, mony a reverend lyart pow, / Wha ne'er thocht muckle o' its jow, […]
- 1867, George W. Donald, Poems, Ballads, and Songs
- An' when his pow is lyart an' gray He'll bless the Brothock Burn.
- 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife
- […] in the lap of a damsel that rode at her rein, on a lyart palfrey […]
- 1853, Walter Watson, Poems and Songs: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:
Anagrams
- tryal
lyart From the web:
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