A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Baisit, Basit, p.p. and ppl. a. Also: bays(s)it, baissit; bais'd, bazed. [Past p. of Bais v.3] Dismayed, dejected.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii. 5786 (C).
Bot thar of bayssit [R. abaysyd] sulde we noucht be a1500 Henr. Fab. 970.
Thy defence is … baisit, blunt, and blait 1535 Stewart 12308.
Quhen the Romanis saw him … So blunt ane berne, so baisit and so blait 1550 Corr. M. Lorraine 321.
To send ane baysit fallow … with in the nycht to caus ane cuntre to cum fordwart [etc.] 1587-99 Hume iii. 17.
Euerie bais'd nocturnall beast, Na langer may abide(b) a1500 Doug. K. Hart 169.
The bernis both wes basit of the sicht 1535 Stewart 23867.
Ane basit barne ay full of dreid and schame Ib. 39586.
Tha war als blait and basit as ane scheip 1603 Philotus cxlviii.
Hee … Did mee out of his hous expell, As with ane Bogill bazed
