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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: 1375, 1475-1500, 1552-1586

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Assaill, Assale, n. Also: assall; assailȝe. [OF. assaille. Also in later Eng. use.] Assault, attack.1375 Barb. ix. 350 (the toun wes hard to ta vith oppyn assale). c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 10 (mony strang assaill). a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 841 (goith to the assall).c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3980.
Duryng the tyme of this assailȝe [: failȝe]a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS xlvii. 75 (but mair assaill).

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