Sc.
1. ‘The liniment used for greasing sheep’ (Jam.).
2. ‘A sort of unctuous perspiration that oozes through the pores of the skin of sheep in warm weather (Roxb.); often called sheep-eik’ (Jam.).
1641. Parl. Proc., 8 Sept. in Scotch Acts (1870), V. 598. Bicaus the eik and filthines of the samene [wooll] is a great prejudice to the workeris thairof.
