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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Parchment, Perchment, n. Also: partch-, pairsh-, pairtch-, parg-, peartch-; also parchmen, perchmyne, -mene. [ME. and e.m.E. parchmen (14th c.), -mine (1594), -ment (1560). Cf. Parchemyn n.] Parchment.(a) a 1500 Coll. St. Salvator 158.
Ane ordinar in parchment in the vestre 1507 Lanark B. Rec. 18.
Parchment 1511–12 Treas. Acc. IV. 276.
In gait skynnis and parchment 1554 Dundee B. Ct. II. 335 b (10 Sept.).
Ane attentique copie … in parchment vnder the secret seill 1591 Aberd. B. Rec. I. viii.
Scrowis on parchment … writin in Latyne all 1603 Montgomery Mem. 250.
For two fanis, on of peper and other of pargment 1621 Glasgow Trades House 99.
Partchment 1684 Jervise Memor. Angus & Mearns II. 300.
For tuo skins of parchment to the touns drum(b) 1582 Misc. Stair Soc. I. 116.
That the new instrument is writtin upone Frenche perchment [infra upon Scottis parchement] 1652 Inverness Rec. II. 205.
Ane lairge wreiting in perchment 1684 Edinb. B. Rec. XI. 122.
Peartchment(c) 1642 Misc. Bann. C. II. 260.
Threttene paper buikis in folio bund in pairshment(d) c1530-40 Stewart Bann. MS. 216 b/57.
Perchmyne a1568 Bann. MS. 258 b/5.
Perchmene 1693 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 217.
Parchmen

b. A skin or piece of parchment. — 1664 Dumfries Mun. Box 3. No. 26.
For ane parchment to be ane heid to the townes drum

c. Attrib. with -porteus and -rentall, and comb. with -skin. 1512 Treas. Acc. IV. 358.
The Kingis gret parchment portews — 1502 Orkney Rentals i. 89.
In the auld parchment rentall — 1503 Treas. Acc. II. 250.
Parchment skinnis of Flandrez 1512 Ib. IV. 423. 1650 Glasgow Trades House 288.
Ane pairtchment skine