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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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GLAMOURIE, -Y, n. = Glamour. Also glam(m)erie, -y, glaum(e)rie; glawmery (Ayr. 1811 W. Aiton Agric. Ayr. 692), glamorie, glamaree. Now only liter. Cf. Gramarie. [′glɑ(:)məri]Sc. 1740 Gypsy Laddie in Child Ballads No. 200 B. ii.:
As soon as they saw her weel far'd face, They cast their glamourie owre her.Ayr. 1822 Galt Sir A. Wylie I. xxviii.:
Andrew read it over studiously, and then said, “My lord, this is glammerie.”Bnff. 1844 T. Anderson Poems 30:
Meg o' can was nae wise stintit, An' could wi' glam'ry, gif she wintit, Bewitch the men.Sh. 1846 Fraser's Mag. (Oct.) 487:
The Shetland trows are unerring in their archery, and so gifted with glamourie, that after hitting down the best fatling, they will delude the eyes of its owner with the substitution of some vile effigy, having the same form as that of the animal taken away.Ant. 1892 Ballymena Obs. (E.D.D.):
After halloweve the divil throws his glammery owre the blackberries.Kcb. 1895 Crockett Moss-hags xvi.:
He can no longer cast his glamourie over whom he will, but only over those who, like witch-wives and others, yield themselves up to him.Arg. 1912 N. Munro Ayrsh. Idylls 89:
I had just discovered that I was old, and this that was revealed to me had something of the glamourie of youthful days.Sc. 1928 J. G. Horne Lan'wart Loon 15:
As far ablow him burst the sea In a' its witchin' glamerie.wm.Sc. 1984 Liz Lochhead Dreaming Frankenstein 83:
But how about you, my fallen fair maiden
now the drama's over, tell me
how goes the glamourie? wm.Sc. 1985 Liz Lochhead Tartuffe 43:
A' the glisterin' riches in the warld mean nut a thing tae me.
Ah'm the last wan tae get dazzled by their glamourie. m.Sc. 1988 William Neill Making Tracks 68:
Et Ne'erday some maun aye be fou gin morn
for glaikit lauchter or for gytit greetin;
a glamourie bides in yill an usquebae. Arg. 1992:
Put the glamaree on someone. Abd. 1996 Sheena Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 37:
Bit ye'll agree the grave's a cauld, cauld place, wi naethin there bit a rickle o banes an a fyew thin memories. This day we'll share aince mair the glamourie o the Celtic fowk, their music, dress and claik.

Used ¶adv. = bewitchingly, dazzlingly.Ags. 1921 D. H. Edwards Fisher Folks 35:
Her shelf fou o' cheena, a' sheenin' sae glaumrie.

Comb.: †glamourie-berrie, herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia (Rnf. 1837 Crawford MSS. XI. 60), from its toxic properties, which cause delirium.