A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Alyar, n. [f. Aly,v.] An alienator. —14.. Acts I. 331/2.
The nerrest of the blude of the alyar [de sanguine alienantis]
