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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1420-1605
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Gled, n. Also: glaid, glade. [ME. glede, (OE. glida. The shortening of the vowel is unusual.] A kite.Early examples in place-names are Gleddiswod (c 1200), Gledstanes (c 1354).(a) c1420 Wynt. vii. 3462.
Gret gentill men … dede lyand then, … To be gleddys or hundys mete 1457 Acts II. 51/2.
Foulys of reif as ernys, bussardis, gleddis and myttallis, the quhilkis distroyis … cornis a1500 Henr. Fab. 1167.
The gled, the graip, at the bar couth stand As aduocatis c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 52.
Evill farit and dryit, … Lyke as the gleddis had on thy gulesnowt dynd c1500-c1512 Id. xxxiii. 78.
The golk, the gormaw and the gled 1513 Doug. vii. Prol. 126.
The soir gled quhislis lowd with mony a pew 1513 Ib. xiii. ii. 121.
The gredy gled on hycht scummand vp in the ayr 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 1169.
With that the gled the pece claucht in his cluke 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 39/9.
The chekyns began to peu quhen the gled quhissilit 1570 Satirical Poems xv. 54.
Ȝe gleds and howlets, rauins and rukes, Ȝe crawis and corbeis blak 1590 Burel Pilgr. i. xxi.
The gok, the gled, With speidie flycht richt fast thay fledfig. 1567 Satirical Poems vii. 46.
Ane gled ay gaipand guid men to deuoir 1597 Calderwood V. 668.
I have continued and putt off … to paint out everie one of you … in your owne colours, especiallie the ravening gled now in St. Andrewes(b) a1500 Henr. Fab. 2890.
All thair flesche wald scant be half ane fill … vnto that gredie glaid a1500 King Hart 380.
Than new desyr als gredie as ane glade [: bed] Come rinnand in and made aue grit deray a1605 Montg. Flyt. 351 (T).
Thy gall and thy gwisorne to the glaidis salbe gevin
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