A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1575, 1649-1650
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Convales(c)ing, -walescheyng, vbl. n. [f. Convalesce,v.] Convalescence. —1575 Rep. Hist. MSS., Var. Coll. V. 100.
I was … hawillie vexit … with gret infirmite of seiknes, and … now at my conwalescheyng a1650 Row 254.
Mr Andro Foster … after his convalesing, took a great trouble in his mynde
