Way

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WAY, sb., adv. and v.1 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. Also in forms wa Sc. (Jam.) Cai.1 Bnff.1; waa Sc. Sh.&Ork.1; waey Sc.; wah Suf.1; wey Sc. e.An.1; wye Sh.I. Abd. [wē, weə.] 1. sb. In comb. (1) Way-berry, the greater plantain, Plantago major; (2) Way-bread, (a) see (1); (b) a large wart on cattle or horses; (3) Way-broad, (4) Way-broad-leaf, (5) Way-burn-leaf, see (1); (6) Way-corn, oats or barley; (7) Way-feeat, the foot or bottom of a road, as leading to a beach; (8) Way-gate, (a) a gate across a road; (b) a path to a given place; a footpath; also used fig.; (c) a road in a coal-mine; (d) a private right of way over another's property; (e) room, space; (f) the ‘tail-race’ of a mill; (g) headway, speed; the act of making progress; (9) Way-grass, the knot-grass, Polygonum aviculare; (10) Way-hire, obs., payment made for the privilege of passing through lands over which no right of way existed; (11) Way-kenn'd, well seen or known by the way; (12) Way-kenning, a knowledge of the way; (13) Way-leave, a privilege of passage, esp. for the carriage of coals from a pit; (14) Way-leave rent, rent paid for such a privilege; see below; (15) Way-man, a traveller; (16) Way-pole, (17) Way-post, a direction-post; (18) Way-reave, a superintendent of highways; (19) Way-side bread, see (1); (20) Way-thorn, the buckthorn, Rhamnus catharticus; (21) Way-tree, a movable wooden crossbar to which the traces of husbandry horses are secured; ‘swingle-tree’; (22) Way-wand, an out-of-the-way person; a poor lost creature; (23) Way-warden, see (18); (24) Way-ward(s, see below; (25) Way-ward supper, see below; (26) Way-warner, see (18); (27) Way-wind, the wild convolvulus, Convolvulus arvensis; (28) Way-wise, experienced, trained; sharp, wideawake; heedful; (29) Way-wizer, a pedometer. (1) Chs.3 (2, a) Bwk., Rxb. (B. & H.), Gall. (J.M.), N.Cy.2, Nhb.1, Lan. (K.), Chs.1 Chs.3, s.Wor. (H.K.) (b) e.An.1, nw.Dev.1 (3) s.Lan.1, Wor. (E.S.) (4) se.Wor.1 (5) Lnk. Patrick Plants (1831) 94. (6) n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1 (7) n.Yks.2 (8, a) Lin.1 (b) n.Yks.2 ‘That's your way-geeat,’ the direction of your road. m.Yks.1 No man's so hard set as a poor farmer. He can make a waygate for all that he has, from an egg to a calf. w.Yks. N. & Q. (1867) 3rd S. xii. 259. (c) w.Yks. (T.T.) (d) n.Lin.1 (e) Rxb. (Jam.) s.Wm. We gave it [a porpoise] its way-gate at last, Hutton Dial. Storth and Arnside (1760) l. 41. (f) Sc. He's awa to sail, Wi' water in his waygate, An' wind in his tail, Hogg Jacob. Rel. (1819) I. 24 (Jam.). (g) Lth. He has nae wayget (Jam.). Nhb.1 He myeks little waygate. (9) Ken.1 (10) n.Yks. To save the country the several rates pay'd by the Riding for way-hires through some particular countries when the said road is overflowed with water from the river Swaile, Quarter Sessions Rec. (1747-1748) in N. R. Rec. Soc. VIII. 267. (11) n.Yks.2 ‘They're a way-kenn'd lot,’ i.e. recognized travellers on that road. (12) Sc. ‘He that's ill of his lodging, is well of his way-kenning,’ prov. spoken when I ask my neighbour a loan, and he tells me that he cannot, but such a one can, Kelly Prov. (1721) 143 (Jam.). (13) Sc. (A.W.), N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Dur. Wi' their royalty-rents an' way-leaves, an' what not, Guthrie Kitty Fagan (1900) 124. s.Wor.1 (14) Nhb., Dur. A rent charged for the privilege of conveying, at the surface, from the pit to the boundary, coal worked from another royalty by outstroke and drawn up the pit, Greenwell Coal Tr. Gl. (1849). (15) n.Yks.2 (16) Sur. The fords and the way-poles are numerous along the run of the Mole, Son of Marshes On Surrey Hills (1891) 130; (T.S.C.) (17) Nhp.1 (18) e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) I. 177. (19) Wil.1 (20) Shr. (B. & H.) (21) Lin. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863). Nhp.1 (22) Nhb.1 Aye, she'll be some poor waywand, aa's warn. (23) Nhb.1 Appointed annually in each township. m.Yks.1, ne.Lan.1 Dev. And the waywarden he brought two stoäns out of the road on Farmer Ward's hill, O'Neill Idyls (1892) 28. (24) n.Yks.1 A suffix to the names of places, towns, &c., signifying in the direction of such places or towns. ‘Which way are you going?’ ‘Ah's gannan' Casselton-way-wards’; n.Yks.4 Nrf. What way-wards is yar beloved gorn, O yow feerest amunst women? Gillett Sng. Sol. (1860) vi. 1. Suf.1 This wah-wad. (25) Dev. ‘Wayward supper’ is a bit of salt fish stewed tender in milk, or else fried, and always boiled parsnips with it, Sharland Ways Village. (1885) 93. (26) n.Yks.2 (27) Nhp.1 (28) Som. Live zo long as he mid, he'll never be way-wise, not a penny to bless hiszelf an' go a-card playen, Raymond Love and Quiet Life (1894) 209. w.Som.1 Said of animals. ‘He'll come o' that, he idn way-wise not eet,’ i.e. not accustomed to the work, not fully trained. ‘You never can't expect no young 'oss vor to be way-wise same's a old one.’ Dev. A gardener, speaking of his assistant, said, ‘He b'aint way-wise, nobody kips him long.’ A young half-broken horse is constantly described as not way-wise, Reports Provinc. (1891) No. 12. [Amer. If they [women] are too young, they are hardly way-wise enough to be pleasant, Sam Slick Clockmaker (1836) 3rd S. ix.] (29) Chs.1 2. Phr. (1) all one way, completely, satisfactorily; (2) a long way, a great deal, much; (3) a' the wye, fair, facin', naething, a cry at marbles, to prevent an opponent from throwing his marble short; (4) aye the ae way, always the same; (5) high ways and low ways, in every direction; (6) in the way for, ready for; (7) nae a' the wye, a cry at marbles to claim the advantage of throwing the marble a short distance; (8) one's ways, wast, west, or wust, used with a v. of motion: away; cf. go, II. 4 (31); (9) the way (that), in order that; (10) way the maggot jumps, the state of things; (11) way to no place, the way to get nothing done; (12) to be going all one way, to be dying; to be sinking fast; (13) to be in a bad way, to be ill; (14) to be in a big way, to be proud, elated; (15) to be in a great way with one, to be much taken, or in love with one; (16) to be in a hinging way, to be neither ill nor well; (17) to be in a poor way, (a) see (13); (b) to be cross, irritable; (18) to be in a strange way, (19) to be in a way, to be anxious, disturbed in mind, grieved, vexed, angry; (20) to go a great (or little) ways, to be of much (or little) service; (21) to have the way, to have a fascinating manner; (22) to look the way one is, to wish to marry one, to court one; (23) to put one out of the way, to disappoint or trouble one; (24) what way are you? or what way are you coming on? how are you? how do you do (1) War. The wound in my head... healed all one way, Weyman Francis Cludde (ed. 1894) 116. (2) Sc. (A.W.) Cum. It's a lang way better to gang that way, for it's faraway t'bainer way (E.W.P.). e.Yks.1 It's a lang way betther tĭ shak hands and payt [part] frinds then tĭ fight an knock yan another aboot. w.Yks. ‘It's a long way t'best to give in nah nor wait whol they're [Boers] nearly all killed.’ ‘Wo'd ta rayther hev a mule nor a donkey?’ ‘Aye, bi a long way,’ Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Dec. 9, 1899). (3) ne.Abd. (W.M.) (4) Ayr. He's no an ill kin' o' body, aul' Johnnie, ye get him aye juist the ae way, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 235. (5) Ir. We sendin' after you high ways and low ways, Barlow Martin's Company (1896) 99. (6) Lth. He is aye in the way for a crack, Ballantine Poems (1856) 108. (7) ne.Abd. (W.M.) (8) Sc. (Jam., s.v. Wa's); It whirlt its wa's ben to the fireside, Chambers Pop. Rhymes (ed. 1890) 84. Frf., e.Per. (W.A.C.) w.Sc. Carrick Laird of Logan (1835) 172. Ayr. Sit doon your wa's here beside me at the windock, Service Notandums (1890) 13. Gall. Gang yer ways ben, minister, Crockett Bog-Myrtle (1895) 267. Nhb.1 ‘Gan yor ways hyem,’ ‘Come yor ways here.’ Cum. Cum sit thee ways doon, an give us thee crack, Dickinson Lamplugh (1856) 9. n.Yks.4 Noo git thi ways in. ne.Yks.1, w.Yks.4, s.Chs.1, nw.Der.1 ne.Lin. Go your ways (E.S.). s.Pem. Come thee wast away on, an' lev' am alone (W.M.M.). Cor.1 Go thee wust home. w.Cor. So take and go thee west home, Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) 7. (9) Ir. She hid the key the way they mightn't escape (A.S.-P.); I whipt the bag [of money] out of the caddy... and I put in a sizable lump of a stone, the way it wouldn't feel too light, Barlow East unto West (1898) 283. (10) Cor. ‘Arreah! thou,’ replied Mrs. Brown; ‘that's the way the maggot do jump, es et?’ Forfar Wizard (1871) 8. (11) n.Yks. It's way ti neea pleeace (I.W.). (12) s.Chs.1 (13) Sc. (A.W.), w.Yks. (J.W.) War.3 She is in a terribly bad way. (14) s.Chs.1 ─)l bey in ŭ big· wee· naay ée)z tai·n)th prahyz ŭt)th Chee·z Shoa·. (15) N.I.1 He's in a great way with her. (16) w.Yks.1, Nhp.1, Hnt. (T.P.F.) (17, a) s.Chs.1 Dh)uwd mis·is iz in ŭ des·pŭt póoŭr wée. (b) Dùn yoa thingk yoa shŭd goa in ŭ póoŭr wée, iv ahy woz tŭ aak·s yǔ ŭ kweschŭn? s.Chs.1 (18) n.Lin.1 (19) Sh.I. Daa hed a lamb 'at he wis in a wye ta git markit, Sh. News (May 12, 1900). w.Sc. She'll gae clean distrackit ─ I hear she's in a sair wey aboot it, Macdonald Settlement (1869) 165, ed. 1877. Gall. Oor mistress was in a way. She said it was a lot o' lees, Gallovidian (1901) II. 123. n.Yks. (I.W.) w.Yks.2 In such a way. Midl. Northall Wd. Bk. (1896). Not.1 se.Lin. He was quite in a way about it (J.T.B.). Lei.1 Nhp.1 She's in such a-way you can't think. War.2 War.3, Oxf.1 MS. add., Hnt. (T.P.F.) Nrf. Well, there, I was in a way, Spilling M. Miggs (1873) 81. w.Som.1 He's in a terr'ble way 'bout the little maid. n.Dev. Malvina,.. now don't you be in such a way, Chanter Witch (1896) vi. Cor.2 Mawther's in a putty way. (20) n.Lin.1 His impidence duz him noä end o' good among foäks here, bud... at th' 'sizes it'll nobbut goä a very little waays. (21) Ant. Back in me heart wid a kind o' surprise I think how the Irish girls has the way wid them! O'Neill Glens of Ant. (1900) 52. (22) e.Sc. She was her mother's daughter, and that fact should have prevented Jamie ‘looking the way she was,’ Strain Elmslie's Drag-net (1900) 215. (23) n.Lin.1 (24) Abd. (A.W.) nw.Abd. Fat wye hae ye been this file? Goodwife (1867) st. 21. N.I.1 3. A mining term: a road in a pit; a working district underground. Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Nicholson Coal Tr. Gl. (ed. 1888). 4. The Milky Way. Nhb. O what is longer than the way, Richardson Borderer's Table-bk. (1846) VII. 86. 5. pl. Way; distance. N.I.1 It's a great ways off. Sur. Maybe 'ee's lost his ways, Bickley Sur. Hills (1890) III. xvii. Wil.1 You'll find un a little ways furder on (s.v. Plurals). w.Som.1 I 'ant no time vor to go all the ways 'long way ee, but I'll go a little ways. n.Dev. Up over a track that ways to Witches' Combe, Chanter Witch (1896) xiv. 6. The direction of; towards; gen. immediately preceded by a place-name. Freq. used in pl. Sc. (A.W.) Abd. Foo's the crap lyeukin doon the wye o' Turra? Alexander Johnny Gibb vi. Ir. Likely enough I may be all the while riding off Sallinmore ways or Drumesk ways as fast as I can contrive, Barlow Idylls (1892) 167. Nhb. The farmer ‘Carlisle-ways,’ with whom he had lived for the last six years, had given up his farm and retired, Tynedale Studies (1896) v. Cum.1 He leevs someway out Wigton way. ne.Yks.1 In Cleveland the word ‘way’ is inserted between place-name and suffix. ‘Ah seed him ganning Danby-way-wards’ (s.v. Wards). w.Yks. Shoo lived Halifax way, Yks. Wkly. Post (Oct. 24, 1896). Oxf. (G.O.) Nrf. Cause o' them as he wanted to see down Necton ways, Jessopp Arcady (1887) ii. 7. pl. A part; a portion. w.Yks. (J.W.) w.Som.1 I baint able vor to meet ee way it all, but if you'll plase to take two pound, that's a good ways towards it. 8. A saying, saw, tradition. Abd. Marco Bullion's day wis dry onywye, an' gin th' aul' wye o' 't be richt, we sud hae a sax weeks o' gweed widder, Abd. Wkly. Free Press (July 26, 1902). 9. Cause, reason. Lnk. The way o' a' this bustle, he's gane aff the nicht again by seven o'clock, Wardrop J. Mathison (1881) 18. Cor.1 The way I said so; Cor.2 ‘That is the way I did it,’ i.e. that is why I did it. 10. adv. An aphetic form of ‘away.’ Sc. Gae wa', gae wa', Scott Midlothian (1818) xxvi. Abd. Gae 'wa', ye haveril, Alexander Johnny Gibb (1871) iii. Edb. Some 'wa hame on carts was borne To mak' a stack, R. Wilson Poems (1822) 80. 11. Comb. (1) Way-gang, (a) a departure, parting, leave-taking; a social gathering of friends to bid farewell; fig. death; (b) a flavour; an odour; a disagreeable taste; whiff; (c) a faint sound; a whisper; (d) the canal through which water runs in its course from a mill; also in phr. the wa-geng o' the water; (2) Way-gang crop, the last crop belonging to a tenant before he leaves a farm; (3) Way-ganging, Way-gaun, or Way-going, (a) see (1, a); (b) departing, outgoing; cf. away, I. 4; (4) Way-ganging crop or Way-going crop, see (2); also used fig.; (5) Way-go, obs., a place where a body of water breaks out; (6) Way-lay, (a) obs., to place oneself in wait; to hide; (b) to lay aside; (7) Way-look, the look of one who looks away from the person with whom he is speaking; (8) Way-pit, the act of sending away; (9) Way-pittin, a burial; an interment. (1, a) Sc. Frost and fawshood have baith a dirty waygang, Ramsay Prov. (1737); (Jam. Suppl.); It's dowie in the hint o' hairst, At the wa'gang o' the swallow, Chambers Sngs. (1829) II. 598. e.Fif. The death o' Tibbie's mither, fallow't by that o' her faither, an' their wa-gang brak the hindmost that bund her affections to Breeriebuss, Latto Tam Bodkin (1864) xxxi. (b) Sh.&Ork.1, n.Sc. (Jam.) (c) Sh.I. Whin I cam ta da door I heard da wa'geng o' a man's voice, Sh. News (Apr. 2, 1898). (d) Lnk. (Jam.) (2) Sc. Edb. Review (Apr. 1809) 145. n.Sc. (Jam.) (3, a) Sc. (Jam. Suppl.); There is a calm and quietness at the wa' gaun o' the year, Wright Sc. Life (1897) 73. Sh.I. Yon wadder 'at wis i' da middle o' da ook is gotten a wagaein', Sh. News (Dec. 4, 1897). Cai.1 e.Sc. He may ha'e so putten the words in my mouth just to ease the wa-gaun o' a faithful servant, Setoun R. Urquhart (1896) xxiii. w.Sc. Scringe cam the driver's whip alangside the noddy, and in its waganging gave me a skelp athort The chaftblade, Carrick Laird of Logan (1835) 276. Ayr. At the wa' gaun the monk gied him some droll advice, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 283. Dmf. I'd be laith to get an ill-name at the very outset of our way-ganging, Hamilton The Mawkin (1898) 125. (b) Sc. (Jam.), (A.W.), N.Cy.1 (4) Sc. The out-going tenant has always a way-going crop, which he can dispose of in two ways, Stephens Farm Bk. (ed. 1849) II. 513. s.Sc. (Jam.) Nhb.1 Where a tenant quits on the 12th of May, he is allowed to have a crop of corn from off two-thirds of the arable land; this is called the ‘way-going-crop’: the entering tenant has the straw, and leads the crop into the stack yard, Bailey & Culley Agric. (1813) 24. Lakel.2 n.Yks.2 The crop of corn which an outgoing tenant is entitled to sow and reap in consideration of, and in proportion to, the quantity of land fallowed and manured by him during the last summer of his occupancy. ‘Poor aud Willy's a way-ganning crop,’ one whose end is fast approaching. m.Yks.1 ne.Lan.1 A certain proportion of the corn belonging to the tenant who is leaving a farm. Midl. In the open field township, the out-going tenant has what is called the ‘waygoing crop’ ─ that is, the wheat and spring corn, sown previously to the quitting, Marshall Rur. Econ. (1796) I. 19. n.Lin.1 (5) Sc. They use to stop the way-goe of the water, sometimes in the summer, and let the place overflow with water, Balfour Lett. (1700) 129 (Jam.). (6, a) Sc. The robber then himself waylaid, That he might rob him if he could, Liddle Poems (1821) 118. (b) Rnf. She was a comely woman when we were young... before she was way-laid, Good Wds. (1878) 184. (7) Cld. (Jam.) (8) Bnff.1 (9) Per. His puir weedy [widow] micht hae had a better wa-pittin than she got, Fergusson Vill. Poet (1897) 49. 12. v. Reflx. To go. Yks. I way'd me, N. & Q. (1850) 1st S. i. 473.

WAY, int. and v.2 Sc. Cum. Yks. Lan. I.Ma. Chs. Lei. War. Wor. Hrf. Glo. Oxf. Brks. Ken. Hmp. I.W. Wil. Som. Dev. Also written wae I.Ma.; wai Ken.1; weigh s.Lan.1; wey Cum.1 se.Wor.1 Glo. Hmp.; whay Wil. Som. Dev.; and in forms waay Wil.; whei w.Yks.; whuay War. [wē; wei.] 1. int. A call to a horse to stop. Sc. (A.W.), Cum. (E.W.P.), Cum.1 w.Yks. Banks Wkfld. Wds. (1865); w.Yks.2, s.Lan.1, Chs.1, s.Chs.1, Lei.1 (s.v. Horse-language), War.3, se.Wor.1 Hrf. They allays said ti the 'osses, ‘way!’ when um did want um to stop (Coll. L.L.B.). Glo. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863) (s.v. Horses). Oxf.1 MS. add. Hmp. Morton Cyclo. Agric. I.W. The gruff ‘Whupo!’ and ‘Ways!’ and ‘Stand-stills!’ of the stablemen, Gray Ribstone Pippins (1898) 20; I.W.1 Wil. Slow Gl. (1892). n.Wil. (E.H.G.) Som. Sweetman Wincanton Gl. (1885). w.Som.1 Dev. Bowring Lang. (1866) I. pt. v. 27. nw.Dev.1 Hence Way-wut, int. a call to a horse to stop. Brks.1 2. A call to a horse to come to the near side. Ken.1 3. v. To call ‘Way!’ to a horse. I.Ma. I didn't see him, but I heard him outside the door waein and woin to his horses (S.M.); ‘You're very late on the road,’ he says ─ and waen and woin, Brown Witch (1889) 3.

WAY, see Wee, Weigh, Woe.