Sc. Obs. [Sc. var. of FOIL v.] trans. in various senses of FOIL. a. To trample on. b. To injure, destroy. c. To defeat, overcome. d. To dishonor, violate (a woman).
c. 1450. Golagros & Gaw., 928. He … Pertly put with his pith at his pesane, And fulyeit of the fyne maill ma þan fyfty.
c. 1470. Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, IV. 456. Sone wndir feit fulȝeid was men of wer. Ibid., xi. 22. Hagis, alais, be laubour that was thar, Fulȝeit and spilt.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., III. 350. Seand his men so fulȝeit in that fecht.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 165. He, with unbridlit lust, fulyeit his anttis.
a. 1807. Christmas Ba’ing, xxvi., in J. Skinner, Misc. Coll. Poet. (1809), 131.
| Tam Tull upon him cuist his ee, | |
| Saw him sae mony fuilzie [ed. 1805 foolyie]. |
Hence Fulyeit ppl. a., exhausted, worn out. Also Fulyear, one who dishonors (women).
1508. Dunbar, Tua Mariit Wemen, 63. Birdis … lattis thair fulȝeit feiris flie quhair thai pleis. Ibid., 86. Nothir febill, nor fant, nor fulȝeit in labour.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 20. He wes ane … fulyear of matronis.
