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: 1587-1626
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Alient, Alyant, a. [e.m.E. alient, aliant, etc., ME. aliente, aliaunte, etc., alteration of alien.] Strange; foreign. —1587 Dundee B. Laws 479 (ane alient serwand). 1622-6 Bisset II. 216/7 (France and utheris pairtis alyantis).
