Sc. Obs. [? f. EYE sb.1 + ME. lest, last fault.]
1. A flaw, deformity, defect.
1591. R. Bruce, Serm., B viij. The last eyelast that appeareth in this denunciatioun is this.
1606. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1816), 357. Ony defaulte or Eilest, be þe quhiik the richt or possessioun of the saidis landis may be challangeit.
1610. J. Melvill, Diary (1842), 761. They fand thrie or four dangerous eyelistis that they could not digest.
1624. Calderwood, Ep. Chr. Brother, 12. The uncomely eye-lasts required to be introduced upon the sound work of this Sacrament.
1768. Ross, Helenore, 142. From any ee-list I’m free.
2. A grievance, grudge; ill-will, malice.
1584. J. Carmichael, in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844), 415. To repare all bygane elistis.
1595. in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials, I. 349. All and sindrie personis amangis quhome deidlie feid and eleist is presentlie standing.
1644. D. Hume, Hist. Douglas, 87. These two lived after … without suspition, grudge, or eye-list on either partie.
