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: 1550-1586
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Band. n.2 [Late ME. bande. F. bande.] A company. troop.c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 282 (he enterit in the Scottis band); 817 (thair was slane, of Inglis band, fyue scoir). c1552 Id. Mon. 5678 (with thare blyst band Off martyris). a1578 Pitsc. I. 120/28 (ane band of men of weir). a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS cviii. 9 (of men a weir the bandis).
