Sc. [App. onomatopœic: cf. blow, blast, blash, etc.]
1. The sudden breaking of a storm; a sudden downpour of rain, hail, etc., accompanied by wind.
1786. Harvest Rig, in Chambers, Hum. Sc. Poems (1862), 52. For ’tis a blout will soon be laid, And we may hap us in our plaid, Till it blaws ower.
1804. Tarras, Poems, 63 (Jam.). Vernal win’s, wi’ bitter blout, Out owre our chimlas blaw.
2. Cf. gouts (of blood).
1827. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 338. Wringing her hauns as if washin them in the cleansin dews frae the blouts o’ blood.
