Citations:syte

Scots citations of syte

syte, site: noun: sorrow, grief, suffering

• 1790, Andrew Shirrefs, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, page 33:

  [To] dree the syte, to suffer punishment

• 1938 [1768], Alexander Ross, The Scottish Works of Alexander Ross: Consisting of Helenore, […] :

  We'll a' be missing, I'll get a' the wyte, An' me my lane be made to bear the syte. […] Were a' the syte to light on you your lane.