lyart

lyart

Scots

Etymology

From Old French liart or Latin liardus.

Adjective

lyart

1. (of a horse) having dappled white and grey spots
   • 1853, Walter Watson, Poems and Songs: Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect:

     Yet, mony a reverend lyart pow, / Wha ne'er thocht muckle o' its jow, […]

   • 1867, George W. Donald, Poems, Ballads, and Songs

     An' when his pow is lyart an' gray He'll bless the Brothock Burn.

   • 1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife

     […] in the lap of a damsel that rode at her rein, on a lyart palfrey […]

Anagrams

• tryal