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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: 1558-1566

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Glaise, n.1 [Of doubtful origin. Current in later dial. in the sense of warming oneself at a fire.] A touch of fire, a burn. —1558-66 Knox I. i 7.
A trane of powder was maid and sett a fyre, quhilk gave to the blessed martyre of God a glaise, skrimpled his left hand and that syd of his face

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