roose

I spak' till him, an' tried to roose him, wi' ae thing after anither, bit I micht as weel hae spoken to the door-cheek, for a' the notice that he took.

From David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

He'd gloat over a dollar like it was a charlotte roose, Huggins would.

From Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

Ye did richt tae resist him; it 'ill maybe roose the Glen tae mak a stand; he fair hauds them in bondage.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren

“Rachel had ay a gude roose of hersel’,” said Becky Glibbans, as Miss Isabella concluded. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt

And the frenche molinet, moralizinge the Romant of the roose in frenche, and turnynge it oute of verse into proese, writeth, Ha si i’eusse creu Theophraste, &c.

From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by G. H. (George Henry) Kingsley

Hae na ye roosed my cheeks like the morning?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

He roosed my een, sae bonnie blue, He roos’d my waist sae genty sma’, And ay my heart came to my mou’ When ne’er a body heard or saw.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

We've mair tae dae in Drumtochty than attend tae every bairn that hes a sair stomach,' and a' saw MacLure wes roosed.

From A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1 by Ian Maclaren

Noo this roosed ma suspicions, for it's against reason for a man tae be dividing intae classes till the end o' his sermon.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren

"Sall, Domsie was roosed," Drumsheugh explained in the Muirtown inn next market.

From Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren