A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499
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(Again-,) Agane-haldin, p.p. [Again adv.] Held back; retained. —14.. Acts I. 59/2.
Of kynd borne bondman fleand and agane haldyn [L. retento]