An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 971 : 1. A twig, S. _Burns._ 2. A wand, a small switch, S. Dan. _vigre_, vimen; _vig-er_, to

1. A twig, S.

_Burns._

2. A wand, a small switch, S.

Dan. _vigre_, vimen; _vig-er_, to be pliant.

WICKET, _s._ The back-door of a barn, Ang.

Belg. _wicket_, portula, Fr. _guichet_.

WIDDEN-DREME, WINDREM, WIDDRIM, _s._ _In a widden-dream_, or _windream_, all of a sudden; also, in a state of confusion, S. B.

_Pop. Ball._

A. S. _woda-dream_, furor, madness.

WIDDERSINNIS, WEDDERSHYNNYS, WIDDERSINS, WIDDERs.h.i.+NS, WITHERs.h.i.+NS, WODERs.h.i.+NS, _adv._ The contrary way, contrary to the course of the sun, S.

_Douglas._

A. S. _wither_, contra, _sunne_, sol; or rather, Teut. _weder-sins_, contrario modo.

WIDDIE, WIDDY, _s._

1. A rope made of twigs of willow; used to denote a halter, S.

_Lyndsay._

2. The term is vulgarly understood in S. as if it denoted the gallows itself.

3. A twig, having several smaller shoots branching out from it; which being plaited together, it is used as a whip, the single grain serving for a handle, Caithn.

Su. G. _widia_, vimen, from _wide_, salix; A. S. _withig_, id.

~Widdifow~, ~Viddiful~, _s._

1. Properly, one who deserves to _fill_ a _widdie_ or halter, S.

_Lyndsay._

2. In pl. equivalent to _brave boys_, in sea language.

_Compl. S._

3. A romp, S.

~Widdifow~, _adj._ Wrathful, S. A. and O.

_Burns._

_To_ WIDDILL, _v. n._ p.r.o.n. _wuddil_.

1. Generally used in connexion with some other _v._; as, _to widdil and ban_, _to widdil and flyte_, &c., S.

_Montgomerie._

2. To wriggle or waddle, S.

3. _v. a._ To introduce by s.h.i.+fting motion, or (metaph.) by circuitous courses, S.

_Cleland._

Germ. _wedel-n_, caudam mot.i.tare.

~Widdle~, _s._

1. Wriggling motion, S.

2. Metaph. struggle or bustle, S.

_Burns._

WIDDRIM, _s._

V. ~Widdendreme~.

WYDE, _s._ Dress.

V. ~Gide~.

WIDE-GAB, _s._ The fis.h.i.+ng frog, Shetl.

* WIDOW, _s._ A widower, S.

_Rutherford._

WIE, _adj._ Little.