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: 1420, 1500, 1587-1605
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Bruk(e, Bruik, n.2 [Cf. Icel. brúk, swelling, rising (of yeast).] An inflamed tumour. c1420 Wynt. ii. 578.
Syne in thare bleddyris boldnyt bylys, And alkyn bruke and scab that vyle is c1500 Rowll Cursing 50.
Brukis, bylis, blobbis and bleistiris [M. blistaris] a1605 Montg. Flyt. 256.
To heall bruik, byle, or blister c1590 J. Stewart 240/34.
Lecherie lay duyning in ane nuik, Both in the goir, the ripils, And the bruik 1587-99 Hume v. 108.
Was he [sc. Job] nocht sair with byles, and bruiks, … opprest?
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