An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Murlie, s.
1. Any small object, Ang.
2. A fondling term for an infant, also murlie-fikes, Ang.

MURLING, MORTHLING, MURT, s. The skin of a young lamb, or of a sheep soon after it has been shorn.
Gl. Sibb.

This is merely E. morling, mortling.

MURLOCH, s. The young piked dogfish.
Statist. Acc.

MURMLED, MURBLED, adj. Having sore or tender feet, so as to go lame, Loth. S. A.

O. E. mormall, a sore, or swelling on the feet, or elsewhere.

To MURR, v. n.. To purr as a cat, a term applied to infants. S. B.

Isl. murr-a, Teut. murr-en, murmurare.

Murling, s. A soft murmur, Ang.

Su. G. morl-a, mussitare.