Noun: graith
| Singular | graith |
| Plural | graiths |
Sample Sentences
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[…] tho' foul and tatter'd / In my present garb and graith [1821, John Stagg, The Cumbrian Minstrel:]
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Is your razor in good graith? (B.K.) [1900, B.K., quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary, page 704]
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Item, to James Homel, to buy graith for the King's vellum doublet, 0[L.] 10[s.] 0[d.] [1797, An Account of Charge and, of John Bishop of Glasow, Treasurer to James III, for the Year 1474, rendered into modern English in The History Of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart]
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The Earl of Moray, however, looking very sharply after his royal sister's personal property, came to Sir Robert Melville's house and insisted "on seeing what graith belonging to the Queen he had got there." Among these were a knot of pearls and a piece of gold […] [1856, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses:]
Nouns inflected like graith
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English graith, graythe, greithe, from Old Norse greiði (“preparation, arrangement”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidiją (“apparatus, gadget”). Cognate with Icelandic greiðe, greiði (“preparation, arrangement, order, hospitality”), Faroese greiði (“requisite articles”), Norwegian greida (“implements, tackle”), Norwegian greide (“harness”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
greiði', Faroese Nouns '
greiði'.