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: 1399-1400, 1539-1629
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Gast, Gaist, n.2 Also: gaste, ghast, ghaist, guast. [Var. of Gest n.3 common in later texts (from c 1570), and occas. in late prints or copies of earlier ones. The instance in Leg. S. is prob. a miswriting rather than a survival from OE. (Anglian) gæst, pl. gastas.] A guest.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 1097.
Sanct Machor … gret ioy made That he sa dere-worthy gaste hade a1540 Freiris Berw. 239 (B).
I will herbry no gaistis heir perfay 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 4539.
The Knicht … prayit his gaistis for to be blyith and glaid 1572 Maitland Quarto MS x. 75.
The gold ȝe gat for suche ane gaist [: manifest] Will neuer by ȝour childring meit c1590 Fowler I. 282/21.
Quhils with him you ar his gasts, and with him dois remaine 1600-1610 Melvill 693.
We could neither be pleisaunt ghaistis, nethir they pleisand hostis a1598 Ferg. Prov. (1641) 18 b.
Shroe the ghast that the house is the war of1629 Mure I. 224/679.
Graves backe to light their sleeping guasts doe send
