A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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*Beild. ? —a1500 Colk. Sow iii. 126.
He [a cock] wald win to his maister in feild Fourty florans with bill and spuris beild