Sc. [Cf. Du. lul.] = LILT sb. 4.
1721. Ramsay, Poems, Gloss. (1760), Lills, the holes of a wind-instrument of music.
1788. in R. Galloway’s Poems, 154. Go on, then, Galloway, go on, To touch the lill, and sound the drone.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, Let. xi. He … could play weel on the pipes;… and he had the finest finger for the back-lill [c. 1832 back-lilt] between Berwick and Carlisle.
