Definition of "laith" [laith]

• A dialectal (Scotch) form of loath.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Meaning that although some people are slow or "laith" to begin a thing, still, when they do commence, it is difficult to get them to leave off."
• "‘I wad be laith to charge them that may be innocent,’ said my gudesire; ‘and if there be any one that is guilty, I have nae proof.’"
• "The conference xuhich Sir Charles ivas put upon holding with the unhappy Clementina, on her being seized laith melancholy."