Sc. Also yowther. Vapor, smoke, fume.
1755. R. Forbes, Ajax his Speech, 4. Fan Hector try’d Thir barks to burn an’ scowder … He cou’d na bide the ewder. Ibid. (1755), Jrnl. fr. Lond. to Portsmouth. He was like to smore us i’ the coach wi’ the very ewder o’t [his pipe].
1814. Northern Antiq., 271. The yowther drifted sae high i’ the sky, The sun worth a’ sae red.
