Definition
To be bothered; to make the effort to do something.
In Context
- "One of a hundred a year, or so, is all I wish:—I would not be at the plague of paying land-tax for a larger."
- "I am a man of few word but I am laird at hame, as weel as in the field; deil a brute or body about my house but I can manage when I like, except Rory Bean, my powny; but I can seldom be at the plague, an it binna when my bluid's up."