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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Build, Buld, v. Also: buyld(e, bwylde; bild; bulld (p.p. bullid); bueld (p.t. buelt), beulld; bould, boold. [e.m.E. build(e, buyld(e, bild(e, etc., adopted in Sc. in the 16th c. in place of the earlier Beild v. or Big v.] tr. To build.(a) c1520-c1535 Nisbet I. 3.
He sall buyld ane hous for my name 1560 Rolland Seven S. 16/25.
Romulus, quhilk buyldit Romes toun 1580 Cath. Tr. 67/16.
Vpon this roik I wil bwylde my kirk 1641 Peebles B. Rec. 102.
With houssis … buildit vpon the syd of the said Castellhill 1649 Lamont Diary 9.
The parish of Largo … buelt a house for the shole-measter 1662 Ib. 157.
My Lord Weyms new harbory, that he was buelding(b) 1533 Douglas Corr. 141.
It is nocht bildit to rasist … an gret powar a1578 Pitsc. I. 301.
How the gowernour gart bild the Castell of Dumbar(c) a1578 Pitsc. I. 249 h.
How Margret queine of Scotland … buldit ane schipp 1616 Irvine Mun. II. 48.
You have buldit ane verrie fair inne 1634 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 22.
To by or buld ane hous 1656 Lanark Presb. 100.
How a bridge might be bulded over the river(d) 1603 S. Leith Rec. 3.
To bould … the forme of a tomb 1649 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 157.
To boold twa loftis … in the Grit Kirk 1676 Ann. Banff I. 156.
The kirk yaird dykis sould be … bouldit of stone