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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1429-1631, 1700+
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Cost-, Coist-side, n. Also: -syd(e, -syid(e. [Cost n.2] The coast.(a) 1429 Acts II. 19/1.
The landis … strekande endlang the cost syde 1473–4 Treasurer's Accounts I. 43.
Passande oure the watter to Desart, and that cost side, with lettres to arrest schippis 1513 Doug. i. iv. 49.
He gat a syght Of thre hartis waverand by the cost syde 1513 Ib. iii. x. 40; etc.
A huge pepill … fillyt all the cost sydis 1545 Treasurer's Accounts VIII. 395.
Chargeing the cuntre men to advert to the cost syde 1594–5 Misc. Spald. C. V. 118.
To summond witnes in the cost syd to compeir at the conventione of borrowis in Perthe 1600 St. A. Kirk S. 921.
[Five men] confest thair travelling with thair pakkis from the cost syid on the Saboth day(b) 1533 Boece iii. vi. 99 b.
Cadallane … apoun the coist syde hangit all the mysdoaris 1546 Reg. Privy S. III. 227.
Ane lettir … makand thame sercheouris … upoun the coist syd of Fife 1574 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 34.
All the townis vpoun the coist syide, and benorth Forth 1582 Ib. 131.
Frome Alloway to the watter of Tay athortt the haill coist syde 1631 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 5.
The proueist, … and counsell … haue ordanet Iohn Maxwell, … to speik the noblemen … on the coist syde for thair supplie thairto 1716 Wodrow Corr. II. 121.]
[In all this parish, and all the coastside
