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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.

Quotation dates: 1501, 1590

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Cant, n.1 [L. cantus, It. canto.] a. ? Song, music. b. A canto. —1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 375.
In modulation hard I play and sing … , Cant organe, figuratioun, and gemmell —c1590 J. Stewart 29/516.
As my nixt cant the maner sall declair c1590 Ib. 30, etc.
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