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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: 1500-1512, 1616

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Bae, Baa, n. [e.m.E. bea (1580), baa.] The cry of a sheep. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 204.
Thay bickerit thé with mony bae [M. baa] and bleit c1616 Hume Orthog. 8.
It is not far unlyke the sheepes bae

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