A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cunned, Cunnit, ppl. a. [Cun v.] Carefully learned or prepared; conned. —(1602) Calderwood VI. 193.
Which must have a farr greater grace nor to … speak as it were a cunned lessoun (1610) Melvill 801.
The litle Inglish Chaplaine, Hudstone, all upoun the groundis, in his cunnit and cuttit maner
