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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: 1399-1500, 1609

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Alien(e, Alyen(e, n. and a. Also: aliane. [ME. alien(e, alyen(e (c 1330), OF. alien, L. aliēnus belonging to another person or place.] a. n. A stranger or foreigner. b. adj. Strange, foreign.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 1366 (as alyene to leff me ymang vnknawine men). c1420 Wynt. ii. 672 (all alienys thai banyst hale); v. 3245 (thai put tha alyenis away). a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow 525 (one aliane come from beyond the sé). 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. 121 (na stranger merchand nor aliene may buy … bot fra ane burges).b. 14.. Acts I. 308/2 (gif ony alien schip come).

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