Crossword-Solution: MAUT 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Crosbie, I am the lad to do it for you, if my wheel was but in order.’ ‘You, must ask my leave first,’ said the provost; ‘for I have been told you had some queer fashions of taking a kiss instead of a penny, if you liked your customer.’ ‘Come, come, provost,’ said the lady; rising, ‘if the maut gets abune the meal with you, it is time for me to take myself away--And you will come to my room, gentlemen, when you want a cup of tea.’ Alan Fairford was not sorry for the lady’s departure.

MAUT: A woman draped, and crowned with the pschent (the pschent was a double crown, worn by the king at his coronation), representing a vulture.

THE LORD OF DEATH _Lord of Death_.--_Maliku'l-maut_ is the Muhammadan form of the name, _Kâl_ is the Hindu form.

November 9th.--We departed through this gate of the Meidhan, three hours before sun-rise, and took the road by which the Hadj annually commences its laborious journey; this gate is called Bab Ullah, the Gate of God, but might, with more propriety be named Bab-el-Maut, the Gate of Death; for scarcely a third ever KESSOUE.

Had he been a Southron, he would have been said to have died full of years; but of my relative the local paper remarked in a touching obituary notice that he "was cut off prematurely in the midst of his mature prime." When I was young, Speyside men mostly shuffled off this mortal coil by being upset from their gigs when driving home recklessly from market with "the maut abune the meal;" but the railways have done away in great measure with this cause of death.