Sc. [Of obscure origin; perh. f. root of FLAW sb. or FLY v.1] ‘A jot, a particle, a small portion of any thing’ (Jam.).

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1804.  Tarras, Poems, 45.

        Wha on life’s dainties nicely chow,
                Wi’ endless gust,
Yet left yir bard wi’ fient a flowe;
                An’ now he’s lost.

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1827.  W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d, 69.

        In coats meal-melvied, powther’d gay
Wi’ flows o’ flour, like milky-way.

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1840.  Webster, in Whistle-Binkie (Sc. Songs), Ser. II. (1890), I. 220.

        When I was a Miller in Fife,
  Losh! I thought that the sound o’ the happer,
Said tak hame a wee flow to your wife,
  To help to be brose to your supper.

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