The word awmous severs good company.

"You have got a good awmous, Carey, will sleep sound, and think nothing of it on the morrow?" said the youth.

By my feth, sirrah?" replied the latter, amazed and irritated at the singular ease and impudence of the mendicant, and above all at his presumptuous familiarity, "but that's a new way to seek awmous.

But he had, doubtless, so far succeeded in his plans; for he possessed a most unenviable fame for all sort of cantrips and sorceries; and the wandering beggar would rather have solicited a bit of bread from the iron hand of misery itself, than ventured near Ballochgray to ask his awmous.

He's a proud beggar that maks his ain awmous.