Show Search Results Show Browse
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1533
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
Ascry, v. [Cf. e.m.E. escry in the same sense.] tr. To descry. — 1533 Bell. Livy II. 222/2.
How the Gaulis had won the capitoll war nocht thai war ascryit be the geis
You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.
"Ascry v.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 18 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/ascry>
