A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Also (allso, alsso), English forms of Alsa, Alswa, used in Anglicizing texts.
1. Also, as well.a1500 Quare Jelusy 75.
My body and my soule also a1500 Lanc. 722; Ib. 874, etc.
This woful knyght … takine is also c1450-2 Howlat 599 (Asl.).
Ane nothir, … also he bure The said Dowglas armis 1535 Stewart 29580.
With Brit and Pecht, and Saxone to also, He maid gude peax withoutin ony fo c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5113.
Sum doith distroy thame self also, As Hanniball, and wyse Cato a1578 Pitsc. I. 233/9.
Allso they could speik sindrie … langagis a1585 Maitl. Q. xlix. 59.
Thocht … Hymen also be our fo
2. As. (Sometimes combined with the following word.)c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2092.
Also-tyte As his forsaid fadere was deid 1516 Sutherland Chart. 66.
Quhousone and allsosoune as the said Elezabet … infefts me 1564 St. A. Kirk S. 191.
Alsoweyl of the kyrk as … of the civil magistratis