A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Compound, -punde, p.p. [ME. (15th c.), p.p. of compoune Compone v.] Compounded, composed. —1456 Hay I. 76/32.
For the hevynnis … sendis thair … influencis in the materis that thir erdly thingis ar compound of 1461 Liber Plusc. 388.
Thair is na thyng that ma lest euir mare, That compunde is of brukyll alymentis
