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: 1399-1400, 1497-1617
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Double, adv. Also: doub-, dowbile; doub-, dowb-, doybill. [ME. double (a 1325), f. Double,a.] To twice the amount or extent; doubly.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvi. 117.
Sancte Nicholas cane ta Doubile sa mykil gold as are a1500 Henr. Fab. 2841.
Thairfoir ga tak ane dowbill tuynit threid 1497 Halyb. 118.
A challis doybill gylt c1520-c1535 Nesbit Matt. xxiii. 15.]
[Ye mak him a sonn of helle, dowbile maire than ye ar 1529 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 230.
Ane cowp of siluir double ourgilt with ane covir a1578 Pitsc. I. 367/23.
Harneise that was dowbill owergilt a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI 258.
The Regent … causit thame to be warnit, to compeir … quhilk they disobeyit, quhairat he was double greeuit
