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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.

Bath, n. Also: baith(e. [e.m.E. and ME. bathe. bath. OE. bæð.] A bath.a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii. 584.
He … wes refreschit thar … As in a bath he had bene 1456 Hay II. 131/19.
Than is spedefull to mak bathis and stovis Ib. 142/30.
The maneris of baithis and of stovis 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III. 125.
I tuik the baithe … preparit with heit watter 1604 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 63.
I being counsellit … to send him to the baithis in Loren

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