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

A. S. hwaene, hwene, aliquantum, paulo.

To QUHEMLE, WHOMMEL, v. a. To turn upside down, S. whummil.
Bellenden.

Su. G. hwiml-a, vertigine laborare.

QUHETHIR, THE QUHETHYR, conj. However.
Barbour.

A. S. hwaethere, tamen, attamen.

To QUHETHIR, v. n.
V. [Quiddir].

To QUHEW, v. n. To whiz, to whistle.

C. B. chwaw-iaw, to blow.

Burel.

Quhew, s.
1. The sound produced by the motion of any body through the air with velocity; S. B. few.
Douglas.
2. A disease which proved extremely fatal in Scotland, A. 1420; occasioned, as would appear from the description, by the unnatural temperature of the weather.
Fordun.