v. Sc.
1. intr. To disappear gradually from sight.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 174. Quhan the sun and the worild hair elyit awaye. Ibid. (1818), Brownie of Bodsb., II. 36. It elyed away o’er the brow, an’ I saw nae mair o’t.
2. To drop off one by one, as a company does that disperses imperceptibly. (Jam.)
