A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1475
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Forthward, a. [f. as Forthward,adv. Cf. Fordward a.] Forward in character, showing promise. —c1450-2 Howlat 192.
Cryand crawis and cais that cravis the corne War pure freris forthward c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iii. 46.
Adam, eldest. was … Forthward, rycht fayr