A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bear-befor, n. [Cf. Forebear.] ‘An ancestor. —c1475 Wall. i. 15.
Ȝhit we suld think one our bears befor