A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Conservar, n. [f. Conserve v.] A place of storage. —1600-1610 Melvill 282.
When the south wound [= wind] haid dryed upe all thair conservars and cisterns of water