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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cordecedron, -dicid(e)ron, n. Also: -sidron, -siderone, -ane. [F. écorce de citron.] Lemon peel.1627 Edinb. Test. LIV. 202 b.
Sevin pund of cordesiderone
1673 Leith Customs 21.
140 pound cordecedron
1675 Stirling Comm. Good 92.
Sax pund cordesiderane
1681 Blackness Customs 28 b.
Ane pund sinamon; four pund cordisidrons
1683–4 Stirling B. Rec. II. 323.
Tuo pound of cordicidron to the provest quhich he gave to my Lady Elphingston
1700 Ib. 94.
Ane pound of cordicideron and orange peell

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