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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: 1544-1641

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Awaiting, Awating, vbl. n. Also: awayting, avayting, avaitting, aveyting, avating, awatting. [ME. awayting (Chaucer), f. the vb.] a. Lying in wait. b. Attendance; giving of attention. c. Waiting, remaining. —1544 Treasurer's Accounts VIII. 257 (thair tressonable umbesetting and avaitting of my lord governour). 1556 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 236 (for his avating and singing in thair queir). 1590 Reg. Cupar A. II. 296 (for the keping and avating wpone the ȝet). 1596 Edinb. Dean Guild Acc. MS. 620 (for the awaiting on vpone the sclaitteris). 1602 Misc. Spald. C. V. 130 (for his abyding in aveyting on the said silver); 136 (for his awayting in Edinburght). 1641 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 120 (for keiping and awatting on the canones).

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