A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Barrand, Barrant, a. Also: barand, barant. Variant of Barrane, in lit. and fig. senses.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 88 (he & his wyfe barand ware bath). 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xv (the barant wive); II. 86 (wemen … barrant, but ony frute of thair wamb); 450 (all the yowis wer barrant). 1551 Hamilton Cat. 277/30 (all hir wemen was maid barra[n]t).(2) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 24 (treis … barrant, unblomit and unleifit). 1513 Æn. iv. i. 88 (in barrand Libya); vii. Prol. 41 (barrand schew the landis). 1531 Bell. Boece I. 13 (amang strait and barrant montanis); 26 (quhare the landis ar barrant). 1552 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 172 (barrant groundis of the Borrowmore).(3) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. Ded. 22 (thy barrant termis). Id. Æn. i. Prol. 20 (with barrand emptyve brayn). c1550 Rolland C. Venus Prol. 319 (thou barrant buik new breuit).
