A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Contrait, variant of Contract v. 4 (after F. traiter). —c1590 Fowler I. 114/49.
His fearse and cruell fates … Which he contraited in hir wombe from whense he first did come
