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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: 1500-1599

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Essay, v. Also: isay. [Late ME. (1483), F. essayer.] tr. To try, taste, partake of. —15.. Clariodus iii. 1603.
No meit he wald isay
1586 Warrender P. MS. 175.
God knawis how farre it essayit my patience quhen I met with that man

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