A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Flus, Flous, n. [Of obscure origin.] A pool. —1375 Barb. xiii. 20.
Thair … was … sua richt gret spilling of blud That on the erd the flus it [E. floussis] stud