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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Copy, Coppy, n.1 Also: copye, copie (pl. -iis); copé, coppé; coppye, -ie, -ey. [ME. copy(e, copie (e.m.E. also coppye, coppie), OF. copie, L. cōpia.]
1. Plenty, abundance.a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 760.
Of betone thare is gret copy c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 774.
Of teres full gret copy Ib. 1135; etc.
Hys fadres grave he wete … inne grete copye … Of wyrgyne bloode c1420 Wynt. i. 1340.
Off all corne thare is copy gret Ib. iv. 1041; etc.
Gold and jowelys in copy 14.. Acts I. 324/2.
Gif copy of ackornys hapnis to be in the kingis forest
2. Opportunity to use or enjoy.c1420 Wynt. v. 1684.
For luve scho yharnyt inkrely Till haue hade off hym copy
3. A transcript or duplicate of a writing, etc.(a) 1456 Hay II. 10/20.
Thou sall geve the copy of this said buke till all men that desyris it 1488 Acta Aud. 123/1.
That the said copy and transsumpt suld haf the samyn strenth … as the said principale annexatioun 1538 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 87.
[The baillies, etc.] … decernes the said minute … of nane availl, … and inhibitis the clerkis to gif furth ony copye to the said Walter thairof 1549 Ex. Processes (Reg. H.) No. 2.
The auctenty copy of the said instrument 1562-3 Winȝet I. 25/16.
[He] gaif copiis thairof as it had bene ane ernist mater 1600-1610 Melvill 185.
He causit wryt a copie in guid wrait(b) 1503 Acts II. 242/1.
That thai haue for ilk act and cope of lettres for ilk pece iiij d. alanerlie 1540 Elgin Rec. I. 54.
The coppe of ane sentence arbitrall gifin … apon the said hors 1570 Prestwick B. Rec. 71.
To geif Adam Myllar ae coppe of this byll on Vodynnis day next 1580 Rec. Earld. Orkney 154.
This within wryttin precept … of the quhilkis I deliverit ane just coppe to the said William Halcro 1594–5 Misc. Spald. C. V. 60.
For certan copeis to warne the fewaris to pay thair gressums for thair new landis(c) 1554–5 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 294.
For the coppy of ane summonds with quhilk the provest … wes summonit 1555–6 Ib. 365.
Ane elne of blak stemming, for the coppye of the gild lawis 1568 Douglas Chart. 266.
This is the iust coppie of the ack and oblissing maid … ȝeir and place abownewirtting
4. A pattern, measure.1540 Lynd. Sat. 3144.
I can mak schone, … Gif me the coppie of the Kings cuittis, And ȝe sall se richt sune quhat I can do
