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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.

Blekit, Blekkit, ppl. a. Also: bleckit, blecked. [p.p. of Blek v.] Blackened. Also fig.1535 Stewart 15797.
Auerice … causit him to be baith blind and blekit
1551 Hamilton Cat. 120.
Na thing … quhilk is blekkit or fylit
Ib. 122.
Gif thai see thair face blekkit
1586 Edinb. Test. XV. 287 b.
Thrie ellis of blekit blak clayth
1590 Lanark B. Rec. 96.
Lang slevis of blekit blak
1662 Edinb. Test. LXX. 274.
lx bollis … of good cleine quheitt with thrie bollis … of bleckit quheitt
a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1682) 51.
To goe with a blecked face & a stoped mouth to the throne of grace

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