Sc. Obs. Also kytral. [Origin obscure.] A vile or filthy wretch.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 74.
| Thay kettereles, though they had but lyse, | |
| The twa part to us they will bring. |
a. 1585. Montgomerie, Flyting w. Polwart, 447. They kow’d all the kytral the face of it before … They calld it peild Polwart.
