a. Sc. and n. dial. Also 6 wilȝart, 8 wylart, 9 willyard, williard, willward. [Obscurely f. WILL a.2; associated later with WILL sb.1]
1. Wild; shy.
1590. Burel, in Watson, Coll. Sc. Poems, II. (1709), 19. Quhiles wandring, quhiles dandring, Like royd and wilzart rais.
1786. Burns, On Dining with Lord Daer, iv. But O for Hogarth’s magic pow’r To show Sir Bardy’s willyart glowr!
2. Self-willed, obstinate.
1791. J. Learmont, Poems, 26.
| But had ye Byng’d some wylart bairns, | |
| It wad hae gien the laive mair harns. |
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xiii. Uh! uh! it’s a hard-set willyard beast this o’ mine.
1876. Whitby Gloss., Willward, self-willed.
1880. Antrim & Down Gloss., Williard, obstinate; self-willed.
