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.
Quotation dates: 1619-1644
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Bygoing, Anglicized form of Byganging. —1619 Fam. Innes 210.
Giff ye goe home … , I pray you vissit me in by-going 1644 Baillie II. 241.
To look on him in the bygoing