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

WEDDYR, WEDDIR, WEDDER, s.
1. Weather; as a general term.
Barbour.
2. Wind.
Wyntown.

A. S. waeder, Teut. weder, coeli temperies, Su. G. waeder, id., also the wind.

Weddir-gaw, s. Part of one side of a rainbow, appearing immediately above the horizon, viewed as a prognostic of bad weather; pron. weather-gaw, S.

Germ. wasser-gall, repercussio iridis; wasser, humour, and gall, splendor.

Weddir-glim, s. Clear sky near the horizon; spoken of objects seen in the twilight or dusk; as, between him and the weddir-glim, or weather-gleam, i. e. between him and the light of the sky.
Gl. Sibb.

A. S. weder, coelum, and gleam, splendor.

To WEDE, WEID, WEYD, v. a. To rage, to act furiously, part. pr. wedand.
Wallace.

A. S. wed-an, insanire, furere.

WEDEIS, pl. s. Withes.
V. [Widdie].
Wallace.

WEDONYPHA, s. The onfall or attack of a weid; wedonfaw, S. A. wytenonfaw, S. B.
V. [Weid].
Roull.