A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1500
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Bone, Bon, n.2 [ME. bon(e, OE. bona, var. of bana Bane n.2] Bane, destruction. —a1500 Henr. Robin & M. 54 (lufe will be my bone). c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 8 (bath best and byrdis bon).