Definition of "graith" [graith]

• Ready; prepared. (adjective)
• Straight; direct; prompt. (adjective)
• Free; clear; available. (adjective)
• To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use. (verb)
• To deal with; treat; handle (a person); complement. (verb)

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• "“Neither,” answered Harry Gow; “I should but prevent your rest, and for me this easy chair is worth a down bed, and I will sleep like a sentinel, with my graith about me.”"
• "Sae they began to jeer the Laird, that he saw nae sic graith in his ain poor country; and the Laird, scorning to hae his country put down without a word for its credit, swore, like a gude Scotsman, that he had mair candlesticks, and better candlesticks, in his ain castle at hame, than were ever lighted in"
• "“There has been Jock Driver the carrier here, speering about his new graith,” said Mrs. Saddletree to her husband, as he crossed his threshold, not with the purpose, by any means, of consulting him upon his own affairs, but merely to intimate, by a gentle recapitulation, how much duty she had gone through in his absence."