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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Beld, Belde, a. [Late northern ME. belde, reduced form of bellyde Bellit, corresp. to late ME. balde for earlier balled(e.]

1. Of persons: Bald.1456 Hay II. 122/1.
It … lettis a man to be sone beld
1492 Myll Spect. 291/30.
Scho … pullit the haire of his heid that he semyt all beld
1531 Bell. Boece I. p. lxvi.
Nane of thame, throw ithand cowing of thair hedis, grew beld
1533 Boece ii. ix. 74.
Thare hedis schavin and nocht beld owder bare
c1550 Rolland C. Venus iv. 708.
That weill I knaw by thy beld heid & ene
a1578 Pitsc. I. 258/17.
His forheid was beld and bair
a1605 Montg. Misc. P. i. 4.
Sho hes … A toppe befor, bot beld behind hir bak
1595 Duncan Appendix.
Calvo, … to make beld

2. Of horses or cattle: Having a white spot or mark on the forehead.1501 Acta Conc. MS. XI. 116.
Ane quhite meir with ane blak foale beld in the forehed
1549 Prot. Bk. Sir A. Gaw 6.
Ane beld stot of ii ȝeir ald
1576 Edinb. Test. V. 45 b.
Ane blak beld meir
1586 Ib. XV. 215 b.
Ane broun naig by the broun beld staig tane to the hereald
1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 4.
Ane blak broun hors beld in his foreheid
1668 Melrose R. Rec. II. 224.
Ane blak beld ox with tua hindermost whyte feett
1703 Foulis Acc. Bk. 325.
For bleiding the beld horse and haugh milne hors

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