A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1547, 1604-1605
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Cosing, Cosyng, vbl. n. Also: coyssing, coissing; cosyn, cosene. [f. Cose v. Cf. Cossing.] Exchanging (esp. of lands).14.. Acts I. 31/2.
Gif forsuth thai mak a coyssing or a change of land amang thaim selff ilke ane of thaim sall geyff twa pennyis 1445 Melville Chart. 30.
The saide Schir Androwe sal hafe in cosing and change the saide Iohne of Wemys part of the landis of Inchemartyne 1457 Wemyss Chart. 80.
Ilkane of the said partis sal infeft vthir in the landis forsaidis with chartir and saysing, in fre cosyng 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 172.
Tha sal gyfe to ws in maner of cosyn sex bollis of quhet and sex bollis of peys 1499 Reg. Privy S. I. 45/2.
The ferd part of the landis of the propirte erldome of Levenax in cosing for ane vthir laund of the said schirefdome 1524 Rec. Earld. Orkney 421.
Ane chartir of tua merkis land … cumin be cosene and chaynge fra Mangnus Bolt to Henry, Lord Sinclair 1547 Liber Coll. Glasg. 138.
In excambium and cosyng of twenty schillings of annual a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 795.
Sic coissing but loissing All honest men may vse
