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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1552-1586
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Afar, adv. [e.m.E. afar, afarre (16th c.), ME. a ferre, earlier on ferre, of ferre: see Fer adv.] At a distance. —c1552 Lynd. Mon. 756 (thow stand afar). a1570-86 Balnavis Maitland Folio MS cxxix. 49 (hald the afar). J. Maitland Ib. clxxvii. 41.
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