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RAW, adj., adv. and sb. Sc. Irel. Nhb. Cum. Yks.
I.Ma. Also written bra’ Sc. Cum.; braa Sh.I. Nhb.1; brow
Bnff.1 [brǭ, brā.]
1. adj. Of persons: handsome, well-dressed; pleasing.
Of clothes, &c.: smart, handsome. See Brave.
Sc. The plain swan's-down will be the brawer of the twa, Scott
St. Ronan (1824) xv. Sh.I. Mony anidder boddy braa, Burgess
Rasmie (1891) 74. Bnff.1 Abd. A muckle hoose an' braw fowk,
Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) vii. Kcd. A braw and handsome
dame, Jamie Muse (1844) 2. Per. The braw folk crush the poor
folk down, Nicoll Poems (1837) 173, ed. 1843. Rnf. If they wad
drink nettles in March... Sae many braw maidens Wadna gang
to the clay, Swainson Weather Flk-Lore (1873) 60. Ayr. His
locked, letter'd, braw brass collar, Burns Twa Dogs (1786); We
all went with our best breeding helped by our brawest cleeding,
Galt Provost (1822) xi. Lnk. She's the brawest lass in the
country-side, Fraser Whaups (1895) vii. Lth. A braw lad cam'
wooin' oor Jean, McNeill Preston (c. 1895) 66. Bwk. The lasses
o' Earlstoun are bonny and braw, Henderson Pop. Rhymes (1856)
79; As braw as Bink's wife, HENDERSON Pop. Rhymes 80. Kcb. I wad gien ilka steek o'
my braw Sunday claes, Armstrong Musings (1890) 149. Uls.
Every day braw mak's Sunday a daw, Uls. Jrn. Arch. (1854) II. 129.
N.Cy.1 Nhb. May your braw lodger hunt his health, Graham
Moorl. Dial. (1826) 14; Nhb.1 w.Yks. Willan List Wds. (1811).
I.Ma. A braw little rogue, Caine Deemster (1889) 35.
Hence Braw-warld, adj. showy, gaudy.
Sc. Golden chains and looped-up bonnets, with braw-warld
dyes and devices on them, Scott Q. Durward (1823) III. 106.
2. Grand, fine; good.
Sc. We gaed on a braw simmer morning, Scott Bride of Lam.
(1819) xxiv; Braw news is come to town, Chambers Pop. Rhymes
(1870) 118; France is... brawer, I believe, but it's no Scotland,
Stevenson Catriona (1892) xii. ne.Sc. A braw day for the season
o' the year, Grant Keckleton, 39. Abd. He made a braw penny
aff o' you, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) x. Frf. 'Tis braw to
be young, Laing Wayside Flrs. (1846) 34. Ayr. Mony braw thanks
to the meikle black deil, Burns The Deil's Awa'; Sic a braw
property as the Plealands, Galt Entail (1823) viii. Lnk. Nine
bra' nout were smoor'd, Ramsay Gentle Shep. (1725) 21, ed. 1783.
Lth. Braw luck an' sonsy weans, Smith Merry Bridal (1866) 16.
n.Ir. A haw year, A braw year, Swainson Weather Flk-Lore
4; N. & Q. (1872) 4th S. x. 266. Nhb. He's gaen down iv a braw
steam boat, Oliver Local Sngs. (1824) 6; Nhb.1
3. In phr. braw and, used with advb. force before another
adj.: very, extremely.
Frf. She was braw an' cool, Barrie Thrums (1889) 140. Lnk.
Kirsty may put them on and wear them,... I'm brawen sure,
Wardrop Johnnie Mathison (1881) 26. Gall. I'm braw an' prood
to ken ye, sir, Crockett Sunbonnet (1895) vi; (A.W.)
4. adv. Finely, well; very.
Sc. Yer legs'll be braw tired noo, Swan Aldersyde (ed. 1896)
bk. ii. i. Fif. The marble mawments [images] carvit braw, Tennant
Papistry (1827) 91; It was promisin' braw when I took ill,
Robertson Provost (1894) 30.
5. sb. pl. Fine clothes.
Sc. I see you hae gotten a' your braws on, Scott Antiquary
(1816) xxvi; Arrayed in all the glory of his Sunday braws,
Dickson Auld Pre. (1894) 94. Frf. A' the bonny braws they wear,
Laing Wayside Flrs. (1846) 131. Ayr. The buying o' your bridal
braws, Galt Lairds (1826) xxx. Lnk. Wife and bairns were thrang
lookin' ower the braws and ferlies he had brocht, Fraser Whaups
(1895) xii. Lth. Yon sun that shines on silken braws, Smith
Merry Bridal (1866) 172. Cum. Wi' bra's weel buskit, rig'd, and
squar'd, Stagg Misc. Poems (1807) 143.
[1. The Duke of Guise with... monie brawe and weirlie
captanes, Dalrymple Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1596) II. 379.]

BRAW, adj. Lakel. 1. Finely clothed, handsome.
Lakel.2 2. Clever. Wm.&Cum.1