A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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*Conterversie, late variant of Controversy. —1671 Forbes Baron Ct. 288.
To be birley men . .to examine and decern vpon all conterversie of pryc[e] cornes betuixt nighbour and nighbour
