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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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Quotation dates: 1515, 1587-1599
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Diversly, -lie, adv. [ME. (c 1300).] Variously. — c1515 Asloan MS I. 157/19.
The see Elesponte … becaus of diuers placis that it rynnis by is diuersly nemyt 1587-99 Hume vii. 105.
Corslets of pruif, … sum dorred diuerslie
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