adv. Chiefly Sc. (quhairfra). Obs. [f. WHERE 15 + FRO prep.]
1. rel. = next.
In quot. 1585 ellipt. = to the place whence.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., IV. viii. 467. The occasioun wherbi and wherfro the goostli harme and synne comen.
1508. Dunbar, Gold. Targe, 57. Amang the grene rispis and the redis, Arrivit sche, quhar fro anonn thare landis Ane hundreth ladyes.
1541. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., B j b. The thyng wherfro nothyng can be taken, nor put to it.
1585. Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 48. He tolde me then, how she flew bak againe, Where fra she came.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., h iv. It behoueth ye cowrse of ye dominicall lettre to be Interrupted, euerie hundereth ȝere quhairfra is subduced ane day.
1643. Reg. Privy Council Scot., Ser. II. VIII. 66. Thomas Irwing … being verie seik in Quondale, quherfra he was flitting.
2. indirect interrog. = WHENCE 1 b.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IX. vii. 106. To se quhayrfra the grundyn dart dyd glyde.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 25. This guse ȝeirlie in the spring tyme returnes to ws: quhairfra can na man tell.
