A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Acqueis, var. of Acquire v. (after conqueis, -ques). —1590 Burel Pilgr. i. vii.
Sick badness and madness, Throw kind he did acqueis