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: 1475-1590
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Aries, n. [ME. (Chaucer), L. aries.] The constellation of the Ram. —a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 5 (Aries, in middis of the Lent). c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 17, ed. 1570 (Aries, the hait signe colerik). c1515 Asloan MS I. 312 (Aries has dominacoun in the hed). 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 50/11 (in the begynnyng of Aries and Libra). c1590 Fowler 269/9 (if Aries be nar).