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

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Devalling, ppl. a. [f. as Devalling,vbl.n.] Descending; sloping. —1587-99 Hume 153/48.
A fair palace situat … on the head of a devalling banke
1632 Lithgow Trav. viii. 360.
The pendicles of a flat devalling height
Ib. x. 506.
Impregnate forts, devalling floods

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