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EVERY, adj. Sc. usages. mostly as anglized equivalents of Ilka. For Sc. forms see Ivery.

1. Each of two, both (Sh.¹⁰, Bnff.², Abd.²⁷, Ags.¹⁹, Kcb.¹⁰ 1944).Lnk. a.1779 D. Graham Writings (1883) II. 10, 38, 51:
Thou's no want twa kisses man, ane on every side o' the mouth, man. . . . Brings a bottle in every hand. . . . She has a dimple in every cheek.Sc. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxi.:
For an' if they had me there wi' a stane's weight o' iron at every ancle, I would shew them a toom room and a lost lodger before to-morrow.Slk. 1829 Hogg Shepherd's Cal. I. ix.:
Wi' a son in every hand.Ork. 1880 Dennison Sketch-Bk. 14:
He was linan' on the wa', wi' a hand on every side.Uls. 1880 Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn. 36:
There's a chimley on every en' o' the house.

2. Phr. and Combs.: (1) everyday, n., a week-day as opposed to Sunday (Rxb. 1927 E. C. Smith Braid Haaick 10; Knr.¹, Slg.³, Bwk.³, Kcb.¹⁰, Rxb.⁴ 1951); also attrib.; (2) everygate, adv., everywhere; (3) everyplace, everywhere. (Fif., Edb., Ayr., Dmf. 2000s); †(4) every to-day, every alternate day (Gall. 1900 E.D.D.).(1) s.Sc. 1858 J. M. Wilson (ed.) Tales of the Borders XIII. 168:
One everyday night, being down at tea with Margery's brother, her mother says. . . .Sc. 1940 (per Mry.²):
Sunday an' everyday's a' ane tae oor Jock.Rxb.⁵ 1944:
Sunday's like an every-day noo, the way folk work in their gairdens.(2) Gall. 1901 Trotter Gall. Gossip 23:
He had a muckle tyke yt gaed wi him everygate, an they said it wus a gran' judge o' music.(3) Dundee 1990 Matthew Fitt in Hamish Whyte and Janice Galloway New Writing Scotland 8: The Day I Met the Queen Mother 14:
Assistant Manageress Gillian did not walk. She breezed. Everyplace she went, she would breeze there. And everyplace she arrived at, she would breeze in with the rota or the stock list or anything which invested her with an air of efficiency tucked neatly under her arm.