subs. (old Scots’).—1.  A knitted nightcap; and (2) by implication the wretch that wore one.

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  1830.  SCOTT, Bonnie Dundee, in The Doom of Devorgoil, ii. 1.

        These COWLS OF KILMARNOCK had spits and had spears,
And lang hafted gullies to kill Cavaliers.

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