Adverb

(head)

(chiefly, Scotland)

* {{quote-book, year=a. 1805, author=Jane Elliot, title=English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, chapter=A Lament for Flodden, edition= citation

, passage=The English, for ance , by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, lie cauld in the clay. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="If I were ance at Lunnon," said Jeanie, in exculpation, "I am amaist sure I could get means to speak to the queen about my sister's life." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Anthony Trollope, title=The Eustace Diamonds, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Pownies ain't to be had for nowt in Ayrshire, as was ance , my leddie." }}