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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1644
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Convoy, n. Also: conwoy. [OF. convoi, f. convoyer Convoy v.]
1. Deportment, bearing, demeanour.c1500-c1512 Dunb. liii. 32.
Quhen I saw hir sa trimlye dance, Hir guid conwoy and countenance
b. Character or import.1568 Pref. Lyndesay 11.
With weil waillit wordis, wyse, and familiar, Of queynt conuoy, … Intill his bukis to speik he did nocht spair Aganis all vyce
2. An escort or escorting; one or more persons acting as an escort.1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 193.
The werkmen, merchandis, … and vtheris that furneist the grayth to the convoy of the moris to the Abbay 1554 Ib. 197.
The xij menstralis that past afoir the convoy and the plaaris 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5072.
Four punsiounis … Ȝe mon furneis of cuinȝeit gold … With gude conuoy and ordourlie expens 1568 Buch. Indict. 36.
Sche … in the cumpanye of sic a conwoy as na prewat man of honest reputatioun wald haif enterit amang, passand to the Armetage in Lyddisdaill 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 71.
Efter supper the honest ȝoung men in the toun come with ane convoy to hir 1603 Rep. Southesk MSS. 13.
We have maid chois of ȝow as ane in speciall for the convoy to Londoun of our said dearest bedfollow c1614 Mure Dido i. 333.
Achates only he his convoy makes 1619 Edinburgh Testaments L. 218.
My bodie to be buriet in my husbandis buriall … I craiue the honarabill convoy of my honorabill freindis
3. Conduct or management of affairs.1565 Reg. Privy C. I. 326.
The samyn pretendit mariage wes compleit and maid be the said Uchridis counsall, convoy, and ratihabitioun 1567 Acts II. 552/2.
He is nocht abill to continew langar in his former tryne & honorabill convoye a1578 Pitsc. I. 51/7.
The Earle of Douglas, be quhais moyen and conwoy the haill realme and court was gydit a1578 Ib. 107/29.
By his consall and conwoy all thingis … was rewlit witht greatter craft and wisdome 1583 Sempill Sat. P. xlv. 71.
As ye shall heir, [he] Betrayed thame bayth with a tryme convoy 1587-99 Hume 83/115.
Thinke not that thou by thy industrie, convoy, or diligence, art able to accomplishe onye gude thing
b. A counsellor, adviser, or assister.a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 746.
Will was his counsall and conuoy 1601 Elgin Rec. II. 88.
Issobell Foulartoun confessit that scho haid slanderit Johne Smyth, … in saying … that he was the convoy of the stealing hir hors and of hir meir
4. Mode of conveyance or transmission.1644 Baillie II. 136.
The Generall, and his partie, finding some footsteps of this intelligence, bot not knowing the convoy of it
5. Attrib. with gilt (money), hous, money.1553–4 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 284.
Payit for the making of the Quenis grace hous on the playfeild, besyde the convoy hous under the samyn 1578 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 58.
That oure natioun may be absoluit frome all kynd off conuoy gilt, als [weill] in the incummyng as the outpassing 1578 Ib. 63. 1641 Acts V. 342/2.
As the Inglish payis for convoy money quhen the convoy is required
