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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: <1375, 1375, 1515, 1575-1612
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Dragy, Dregy, n. Also: dragie, draigie, dregé, droggie; pl. drageis, dregis. [ME. dragy, dregé (c 1350), dregé (1481–90), OF. dragie, dragee.]
1. A kind of sweetmeat or comfit. Also pl. comfits of this kind.(1) 1329 Exchequer Rolls I. 141.
Per empcionem … duodecim librarum de dragy, expenditarum in domo 1329 Ib. 221.
Sexaginta librarum de dregy 1331 Ib. 409.
De … lx libris de drege c1515 Asloan MS I. 41/11.
Dragy na sic thing brekis nocht fasting, na drink sa that it be sobirly tane 1583–4 Misc. Spald. C. V. 55.
For sax quartis vyne and sax buistis dragie(2) 1575 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 657/2.
Ane pund of grene and reid dregis 1582 Edinburgh Testaments XI. 355 b.
Tua dosane buistis of drageis 1597 Ib. XXXI. 175 b.
Tua pund wecht cullourit drageis
2. Dragie muskie [F. musquée], comfits flavoured with musk.1587 Edinburgh Testaments XVIII. 246.
Thrie pund wecht of droggie muskie 1596 Ib. XXIX. 289.
Sax pund of dragemuskeis 1607 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 172.
Item, xxviii vnce of sundrye colloris of draigie muskie 1612 Bk. Rates 312.
Dragie muskeis the pund
