- mist or sea-fog, drizzle. There is something very bleak, if poetic, about this word, brought to us through the rouks of time by the Vikings.
Mair scouthry like it still does look,
At length comes on in mochy rook.
(George Robertson Har’st Rig 1786.)
The peculiar fog . . . is called in some parts of Scotland the ground rook, and strongly resembles a thick smoke arising from the surface of the earth (R. Kerr General View of the Agriculture of the County of Berwick 1809).