int. Sc. In quots. will-, weel-, wull-. Altered form of WELLAWAY.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 79. Ah! willawins for Scotland now.
a. 1800. Lady Jane, in Jamieson, Pop. Ballads (1806), II. 81. O willawins! that graceless scorn Should love like mine repay.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xi. Wull a wins!—such a misfortune to befa’ the House of Ravenswood, and I to live to see it!
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 51. But will-a-wins! Your hands are toom.
1871. W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb, iii. 23. Weel-a-wuns, than, Jinsic,… we’se lat ’im rest’s bancs in peace and quactness.
