A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cessone, variant of sessone Sesone n. (season). —1571 Sat. P. xxv. 97.
Thair tressone, this cessone, It sall not make me suerve 1570-3 Bann. Trans. 57.
The great king of Carrick can no more eschape hell for ever nor the imprudent abbot eschaped the fyre for a cessoine
