Crossword-Solution: UNCOS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

She was a relation to my first wife, Betty Lanshaw, my own full cousin that was, and we had advised her, by course of post, of our coming, and intendment to lodge with her as uncos and strangers.

With joy unfeign'd brothers and sisters meet, An' each for other's weelfare kindly spiers: [asks] The social hours, swift-wing'd, unnoticed fleet; Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears; [wonders] The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years; Anticipation forward points the view.

Another sentiment she charmed the poet by expressing in the toast she gave after dinner, "_Hooi Uncos_," that is, Away Strangers, a word used by shepherds when they bid their collies drive away strange sheep.

She conferred knighthood on the poet with the great double-handed sword of that monarch, and is said to have delighted him with the toast she gave after dinner, 'Hooi Uncos,' which means literally, 'Away Strangers,' and politically much more.

What uncos heard ye there?" "I watna, Sir Patrick," replied the other; "now-a-days, I think, there's naething unco that can happen.