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, 1500-1512
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Gast(e, a. [ME. (14th c.). Cf. Gast,n.3] Frightened, alarmed. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 499.
To be befte he was sa gaste c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxiv. 19.
Me think my spreit rynnis away full gast
