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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: 1399-1420, 1499-1699

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Get, n.1 Also: gett, geit(t, geat, keait. [ME. get, gett (a 1400), f. Get v.]

1. Begetting, birth: generation.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 186.
Johne is … Borne of woman thru get kindly
a1400 Ib. 915.
Ȝet ware Herodis ma thane he, That be get caue til hyme succede
c1420 Wynt. vi. 1946.
Set of hys get fell othir wayis, As to be gottyn kyndly, As other men ar generaly
c1420 Ib. ix. 2816.
The tend persown he wes be get In lineale descens fra Sanct Margret
a1500 Henr. Fab. 798 (B).
Off wrangus get cummys wrang successioun. This fox, bastard of generatioun, Off verrye kynd behufit to be fals
1562 Rec. Earld. Orkney 115.
Swa ar the ayris of the fyrst get cleyrlye owtred of thayre fathyre arff frome the ayris of the last get

2. Offspring; a child, a brat.(a) c1420 Wynt. vii. Prol. 39.
The … generatyowne That come be the lauchfull get Off Malcolme kyng and Saynt Margret
c1420 Ib. 409. c1420 Ib. viii. 516.
The fyrst get in all kyn gre, Nerrare or ferrare quhethir it be
c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 244.
Fals tratour, feyndis gett
1513 Doug. vi. v. 56.
Anchises get, heynd child, … Discend ondowtabill of the Goddis blude
1513 Ib. viii. i. 38; etc.
O gentill get, cummyn of hie goddis kyn
1545 Stirling B. Rec. I. 41.
You leid that said Annapill Graheme wes ane freris get
1567 Satirical Poems viii. 11.
Blasphemus baird and beggeris get
1570 Ib. xxiv. 41.
Ganȝelons gettis, relict of Synonis seid
1638 Rothes Affairs Kirk 198.
The divels gett, Sonne of a witches breeding
1683 Peebles B. Rec. II. 110.
The counsell … fynes Mareon Bennett, … for calling John Thomsones bairn ‘witches get’
(b) 1566 Inverness B. Rec. I. 138.
Elspet and Mareoun … callit hyr commond theiffis geit
1593 Elgin Rec. II. 29.
Scho hard Annapill Thomsone call Elspet Robertson … witchis geit
1593 Ib. 33.
Jhone Man … sclanderit Robert Varden … in calling of the said Richart theif and his barnis thevis geittis
1641 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 267.
William Walker … wes convict … for mispersoning his said maister, be calling him theiffes geit
1681 Banff Ann. I. 160.
Robert Duffus … called him scheipsteilleris geit
(c) 16.. Reg. Panmure I. p. xxxiii.
The kinge … said to him ‘Marie newir ane preists geat’
(d)1569 Inverness Rec. I. 174.
He cleschit the said William … and callit him preist keait he was

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