A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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But-cuming, vbl. n. [But adv.1] The act of coming towards the door. —1568 Lanark B. Rec. 42.
In the but cuming agane … the said George … straik the said Ihone Faucht
