Obs. Chiefly Sc. Also 5–6 wlt, wult, 5 vilt, 6–7 volt; 5 voute, vowt, wout. [a. OF. vult, volt, voult, vout (= It. volto, Sp. and Pg. vulto):—L. vult-us face, etc.] Face, countenance; esp. expression of the features, cheer or bearing.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, v. (John), 350. Sancte Iohne … croysit it, & drank al oute but rednes with blith wlte. Ibid., xxv. (Julian), 705. A laydy … with blyth wlt,… sad to þame þat stud about.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 137. Þe voute of thi vesage has woundyde us alle! Ibid., 3054. He weres his vesere with a vowt noble.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. 3539. Fayr of fasson and of face,… Pert of vult and eloquent.
c. 1470. Golagros & Gaw., 1278. To that lordly on loft that lufly can lout,… Salust the bauld berne, with ane blith wout.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, X. 77. Quha couth behald thair awfull lordly wult, So weill beseyn, so forthwart, stern, and stult.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, XII. xi. 93. In the thar wltis, in the thar ene, but faill, The Latyn pepill dressit hes alhaill.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 497. He was nathing content of this estate; howbeit, he schew gud vult for the time.
1580. Well of Woman Hill, Aberdeen, A iij b. This watter, being drunkin, cuirand … prolapsion of the vult, and dolour of the Tonsallis.
c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (1683), 70. She welcomed me with a merry volt, and thanked me for the diligence I had used in hasting to give her that intelligence.
