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Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
12-Dec-14 - 05:23 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Freedom Come All Ye (Hamish Henderson)
Subject: RE: Origins: Freedom Come All Ye (Hamish Henderson)
I don't think to does Dave.
The Concise Scots Dictioary defines "crouse" as exactly the opposite of 'cowardly' suggesting in its first definition it means bold or courageous. However it then gives further definitions which include "cenceited, arrogant and proud". The lyric in the song "crousely craw" to me reads as "arrogantly or proudly crow".
The Chambers Scots Dictionary of 1911 defines "crousely" as "proudly, confidently, boldly etc"