A great loss indeed it was, and the vexation thereof had a visible effect on her health, which from the spring had been in a dwining way.

When they a' dwined awa', In the fa' o' the year.

For peats were yet to ca', Our sheep they were to smear, When my a' dwined awa', In the fa' o' the year.

And then I first maun greet: I ken its fancy a' And faster rows the tear, That my a' dwined awa', In the fa' o' the year.

" DWINING (Henbane), a pottingar or apothecary.

The want of the sense of God's favour, and of the comforts of the Holy Ghost, maketh them to dwine and droop, and look out as dead.

The poor little mouth was all of a twist, and his eyelid drooped, and he never ceased mourn, mourn, mourn, wail, wail, wail, day and night, and whatever food he took he never was satisfied, but pined and peaked and dwined from day to day, so as his little legs was like knitting pins.