A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Chell(e)is, -ice, Chelise, irreg. variants of Chalice. —a1400 Leg. S. xxii. 604.
In the kyrk of Sancte Laurens … Thar was a chelise … of cristole fyne 1525 Misc. Bann. C. III. 108.
The chelleis of Sanct Magnus in Tyngvell is in Dyngwell 1560 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 98.
The siluer chelleis and vtheris ornamentis of the Halie Blude altare 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 118.
Ane chellice of the Holy blud olim 1600-1610 Melvill 617.
His messe-clothes and chellis
