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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: 1607-1650
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Asound, adv. [Var. of ME. aswowne, after the common ME. and e.m.E. sound ‘swoon’.] Aswoon. — 1607 Criminal Trials II. 525.
Hir spreit faillit hir, that scho continewit ane lang space asound c 1650 in Row 466.
He was in hazard of falling a-sound
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