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: 1533-1551, 1604-1652
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Cleid(e, v. [Later form of cleith Clethe v., perh. influenced by Cled p.p.] tr. To clothe; fig. to furnish or invest with something.1533 Boece viii. i. 247 b.
Devode all sleuth & cowardice, and cleid ȝow with glaid corage 1551 Elgin Rec. I. 108.
The assise deliuerit … that Issobell Dunnet … now cleid hir with ane honest man to be hir maister 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 55.
The filthy apparell which sinne cleideth his soule with all 1652 Stirling B. Rec. I. 206.
They have ordeanit the thesaurar to cleid him presentlie
