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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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Embalm, v. Also: enbalm, -bawm. [ME. enbawme (14th c.), -balme, embaume, OF. embaumer.] tr. To embalm (a body); to make fragrant.a1400 Leg. S. iii. 796.
Scho … it enbawmyt … With aloe, myre and cense Ib. xxviii. 720.
A sepultur He gert mak … & embalmemyt [sic] hyre body 1513 Doug. xii. Prol. 136.
Ilk burgioun, syon, herb, and flour, Wolx all embalmyt of the fresch liquor Ib. vii. 88.
Venus … temperis and enbalmys prevely The plastyr tharwith

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