Definition of "greit" [greit]

• Alternative form of greet (to weep) (verb)

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• "It's a gran 'thing to ken a lassie like yon, an' a gran'er thing yet to be allooed to lo'e her: to sit down an 'greit 'cause I'm no to merry her, wad be most oongratefu'!"
• "B. Aleccain Tubalcain with out-state of Otto Attis 'greit' Spieling … Wis/o support"
• "N3, The vseles morion shall On crooke hang by the wall. c1600 Diurnal of Occurrents (1833) 212 Ane greit number of hagbittis, corslattis and mirriounis, togedder with some vyne [etc.]. c1600 Hist."