Part 979 (1/2)

_To_ WIP, WYP, _v. a._ To bind round, S.

_Dunbar._

~Wyp~, _s._ A wreath, a garland.

_Douglas._

Moes. G. _waip_, _wipja_, corona.

WYR, _s._ An arrow.

_Barbour._

Fr. _vire_, the arrow called a quarrell; Isl. _aur_, telum, sagitta.

_To_ WYR, _v. a._ To wreathe, to let down by a whirling motion.

_Barbour._

Mod. Sax. _wyr-en_, Fr. _vir-er_, Lat. _gyr-are_.

_To_ WIRK, WYRK, _v. a._

1. To work, to cause to accomplish.

_Douglas._

2. To make, to form.

_Dunbar._

A. S. _wirc-an_, _wyrc-an_, facere.

~Wirk~, ~Werk~, _s._ Work.

_Wallace._

WYROCK, _s._ A sort of hard excrescence.

V. ~Virrok~.

WIRRY-COW, _s._

1. A bugbear, a scarecrow, S.