Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Dwelling place, Duelling place, n. Also: dwellyn(g, duellyng, dewlling, dolling. [ME. dwellynge place (Wyclif).] A place of abode.(a) 1437 Edinb. B. Rec. I … 5.
Thairto sall contribute ilk ane … as effeiris till him for his dwelling place 1509 Douglas Chart. 193.
We beand lachfully warnyt in propire perswn or at oure dwellyn plase 1513 Doug. xi. vii. 70.
To othir costis or pepill forto wend Thar dwellyng place for ay to apprehend 1531 Bell. Boece I. 10.
A banist pepill, namit Pichtis, come … to serche ane dwelling place(b) 1455 Melville Chart. 40.
I, the said Thomas, summonds the forsaid Henry Forester at Nudry, his mansioun and duellying place 1474 Stewart Mem. 73.
That I … beis warnyt … at my duellyng plaice … on fourty days warnyng 1513 Doug. iii. iii. 26.
This duelling place thou mon change 1562-3 Winȝet II. 17/6.
Insamekle that we … remanis in the secret duelling place of a quiet village c1650 Spalding I. 218.
Yit [he] had nather duelling place nor houshold remaining within his diocie(c) 1593 Sutherland Chart. 175.
To compeir … personalie, or at his dolling place 1605 Stewart Mem. 114.
[To] charg them personale give thay can be apprehendet, and failȝeing thairof at thair dewllingplaice