Chiefly Sc. Forms: see YULE sb. and DAY sb. [OE. ʓeohheldæȝ; cf. ON. jóladagr.] Christmas Day.
a. 900. O. E. Martyrol., 1 Nov., 198. Se ærysta dæʓ in natale domini, þæt is ærysta ʓeohheldæʓ.
c. 1200. Ormin, 11063. Itt iss þe þrittennde daȝȝ Fra ȝoldaȝȝ, nohht te twellfte.
c. 1205. Lay., 22737. Hit wes in ane ȝeol-dæie þat Arður in Lundene lai.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 10371. On þe ȝol day he made his feste.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., V. vii. 1381. On Ȝoil [v.r. Ȝule] day He bad thre messis be said ay.
1488. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 100. To the Kingis offerande on Ȝwle da, ij demyss.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot. (S.T. S.), II. 462. Euin ȝuil day, Christes awne day.
1600. J. Hamilton, Facile Traictise, 174. Thay cause thair wyfis and seruants spin in oppin sicht of the people vpon zeul day.
a. 1670. Spalding, Troub. Chas. I. (Bannatyne Club), I. 85. Doctor Scrogie gave the communion, upon Yeull day, in Old Aberdein.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Daft Days, v. Whan merry Yule day comes, I trow, You’ll scantlins fin’ a hungry mou.
