Muin
Hamish Scott
The muin’s a gowf[2] baw[3] wantin[4] strak[5]
Skelpit[6] sair[7] the lenth o sum hole blak
An holin out[8] condamnit[9] ti wrak[10]
The weys superne[13] A[14] may mistak
But ken the course.
Notes
[1] (Muin) moon
[2] golf
[3] ball
[4] lacking
[5] SND: straik, n. … Also … † strak (Ags. …) … I. n. 1. A blow …
[6] struck
[7] hard
[8] SND: hole, v. … 2. In Golf: to hole out: to complete the play of a hole by striking the ball into the hole.
[9] Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST): condamn(p)nit … condemned. Last citation is 1623.
[10] SND: wrack, n.1, v.1 Also wrak … II. v. 1. As in Eng., of a ship: to destroy or be lost by storm, etc. … 2. tr. To break in a physical sense, disable, destroy, ruin. … intr. to come to ruin. …
[11] SND: misken, … 1. Not to know, to be ignorant of. 2. To fail to recognise. Hence miskent, unrecognised, unknown, not well known. 3. Of persons or facts: to fail deliberately to recognise … take no notice of. Also fig. † 4. To leave off doing a thing, to desist, forbear. … 5. To fail to understand, to mistake, to misconceive: refl. to mistake oneself, get above oneself, to form mistaken ideas of one’s own importance, to give onself unwarranted airs. Hence miskent, misunderstood …
[12] SND: clour, n. … 1. A blow. Gen. Sc. … 3. The result of a blow on metal, etc.; “a dent or bend in irregular form”… ; “the hollow or dent left when a sheet of tin or iron is struck by a hammer or stone” (Kcb. …).
[13] Oxford English Dictionary, †supern, a. Obs. Forms: 1500 to 1600 superne … 1. = supernal I. The entry for supernal is as follows: adj. 1. That is above or on high: existing or dwelling in the heavens.
[14] I
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