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

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1400-1420, 1500-1608

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Eclips, n. Also: eclyps, ecclips; eclipis, ec(c)lippis. [ME. eclips (c 1374), eclipse, OF. eclipse, L. eclīpsis. Cf. Esclipse and Clips.] An eclipse.c1400 Troy-bk. i. 537.
Eclyps was neuir sene Agane twa kindely coursys to fall
c1400 Ib. 546.
Thane tok the sonne … eclyps
c1420 Wynt. viii. 5517.
A gret eclippis wes off the sowne
c1420 Ib. 5524. c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 14.
The mone sould thoill ecclippis [M. ecclips]
c1500-c1512 Ib. 489.
Thou was consauit in the grete eclips
1549 Complaynte of Scotland 55/17.
Quhen the mune is in the eclipis, for in the tyme of the eclipis [etc.]
1549 Ib. 56/6.
The eclips of the soune
a1585 Montg. Maitland Quarto MS lxiii. 24.
At quhose depart scho fell into the eclips
1608 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 32.
The ecclips of the sone and cheynge of the mone

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