Definition of "graith"

graith¹

/ɡɹeɪθ/

verb
third-person singular simple present graiths, present participle graithing, simple past and past participle graithed
1. (obsolete outside Scotland) To make ready; prepare; put in order; make fit for use.
  Quotations
  Gowden graith'd his horse before, and siller shod behind […]
  1776, David Herd, Collected Songs (reprinted in 1870 as Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs)
  And graith my horse!
  1802, Walter Scott, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
2. (obsolete outside dialects, chiefly UK) To dress (someone or oneself) or be dressed.
  Quotations
  At fairs he play'd before the spearmen, All gaily graithed in their gear-men.
  1748, “The Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan; or, the epitaph of Habbie Simson”, in Poems in the Scottish Dialect by several celebrated Poets, page 9
  Where didst thou steal that goodly coat of green, That thou art graithed in?
  1820, Wallace; a historical tragedy, in five acts
  Many a winsome dwarf was seen, graithed in rich attire;
  1903, “The Dwarf King's Court”, in The Masterpieces and the History of Literature

graith²

/ɡɹeɪθ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural graiths
1. (obsolete) Preparation; arrangement; condition.
  Quotations
  […] tho' foul and tatter'd / In my present garb and graith
  1821, John Stagg, The Cumbrian Minstrel
  Is your razor in good graith? (B.K.)
  1900, B.K., quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary, page 704
2. (obsolete) Accoutrements: clothes, materials, equipment, furniture, etc.
  Quotations
  Item, to James Homel, to buy graith for the King's vellum doublet, 0[L.] 10[s.] 0[d.]
  1797, An Account of Charge and, of John Bishop of Glasow, Treasurer to James III, for the Year 1474, rendered into modern English in The History Of Scotland from the Accession of the House of Stuart
  The Earl of Moray, however, looking very sharply after his royal sister's personal property, came to Sir Robert Melville's house and insisted "on seeing what graith belonging to the Queen he had got there." Among these were a knot of pearls and a piece of gold […]
  1856, Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses