Sc. and Anglo-Irish. Also -grease. A kind of gruel.
a. 1733. in C. K. Sharpe, Ballad Bk. (1823), 113. I gave him wangrace in his bed, And row’d the blankets round him.
1829. Acc. Persons remark. Health & Longev., 225. The sweat which he took … was what they call a wangrease in that country. It is made of oatmeal, flummery made very thin, sweetened with honey, and a lump of fresh butter.
1899. Seumas MacManus, in Century Mag., Oct., 959/1. ‘Aye, an’ a bowl i’ wan-grace,’ Rosie, the maid, said—‘that’s what ’ll put the sthren’th intil yer bones again.’
