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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quhit(t, Quhytt, n. Also: whit. [ME wit (1297), cf. Quhet(e n., Quhite n.¹] Wheat. = Quhet(e n. Also attrib.Quhytt dowche may perh. belong with Quhite adj. 1 g. Cf. Quhit(t)-breid n.(1) 1520 Stirling B. Rec. I 4.
That na meill, malt, baier, nor quhit, … be saild quhill xij houris at noune 1534–5 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 147. 1546 Aberd. B. Rec. I 232.
Tua Inglis prysis … laidnit with quhit, malt and aittis 1547 Reg. Cupar A. II 50. 1555 Aberd. B. Rec. in St. A. Baxter Bks. 41.
That nane of the saidis baxsteris by quhit attour his nychtbouris heyd 1681 Glasgow Bakers 65.
Whit(b) 1541 Aberd. B. Rec. MS XVII (Jam.).
Quhytt 1548–9 Corr. M. Lorraine 287. 1549 Banff Ann. I 24. — 1549 Banff Ann. I 25.
Breid of quhitt baixisteris(2) 1561 Reg. Dunferm. 441.
Teynd quhit in Kircaldie(3) a1568 Bann. MS 94a/25.
Thir lordis … That this doun treddit hes our quhit [: grit, knit](4) attrib. 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II 309.
For twa greit bakis to be stullis to the malt myln and the quhit myln with hir 1592 St. A. Baxter Bks. 49.
Ony that braikis this ordour … or puttis in baikis with quhytt dowche in the ovine