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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: 1399-1400, 1500-1512, 1571

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Farly, Fairlie, a. [Northern ME. farli (c 1300), var. of Ferly a.] Strange, wonderful. —a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 136.
Farly thinge I se on thé c1500-c1512 Dunb. Twa Mar. W. 323 (M).
And eik this is ane farlie [1508 ferly] thing 1571 Satirical Poems xxvii. 28.
Mony fairlie fortunes thow may find

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