aois

-e, sf Age. 2 Old age. 3 Antiquity. Dé an aois a tha thu? what is your age? is mairg a dh'iarradh an aoise! pity him that wishes extreme old age! airson 'aoise, for its antiquity; iargainn na h-aoise, the evil effects of old age; bha Noah cóig ceud bliadhna a dh'aois, Noah was 500 years old; ann an làn aois, in full age; nuair a thig thu gu h-aois; when you come to age; tha m' aois fo dhòrainn, my old age is sorrowful; aois leisgein, ceithir fichead ri muir-tràigh, is trì fichead ri muir-làn, is gann fichead nuair a bhios a' ghealach làn, the sluggard's age, eighty at low-water, sixty at high-water and scarcely twenty when there's a full moon. (At low-water, while the sea-ware is being gathered for manure, the sluggard is as feeble as a man of eighty, at high-water, when less difficult work is engaged in, he is a little livelier, but still incapable of much exertion, but when night comes, especially if there should be moonlight, he is as lively as a young fellow of twenty and probably walks many miles on courting errands).

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