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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: 1400, 1584-1605

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Fule-, Fuil-haist, n. [ME. foolhast (Gower), OF. fole haste.] Foolish haste. —c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1682.
It … is richt suth … That of fule haist cummis no speid a1585 James VI Maitland Quarto MS lxvii. 13.
Sen fuil haist cummis not greatest speid a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 403.
Fuill haist aye, almaist aye. Oresettis the sicht of some

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