Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Scotch form of both.

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Examples

  • But, my honey, if ye let me say sae, there's good and bad in baith places, and Glasco's no so ill as it looks.

    Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

  • And the crown and the pound, oh! they were baith for me!

    Letter 234 2009

  • Auld Rob maintain'd them baith, and, wi 'tears in his ee,

    Letter 234 2009

  • ‘And good reason ye have, that are sae sib to them,’ quoth the lady, ‘and kend weel baith them that are here, and them that are gane.’

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • ‘It can write and spell baith in right hands,’ answered the provost, as the laird retired and shut the door behind him.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • Nochtheles, the hart followit so fast, that he dang baith the king and his hors to the ground.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • I shanna say how mony years, and has a character to keep up baith with saint and sinner. —

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • He liked music, and I had the best teachers baith England and Scotland could gie me.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • But then I will put on nane of their Popish disguises — me that has lived in North Leith, baith wife and lass, for

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • Francie, and muckle ado I had to keep ye baith in order when ye were on the ramble.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

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