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: 1569-1585
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Glist(e)ring, Glystring, ppl. a. [e.m.E. glistering, ME. glysterynge (1398).] Glittering. — 1570 Satirical Poems xv. 62.
Ȝe sone and mone and planetis seuin, Ȝe glystring starris bricht 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 57.
Thir wer the glistering promises whairwith Sathan … eludit my sences a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xl. 54.
Phoebus … with his glistering bemis a1585 Ib. lxxvii. 8.
Glistering gemmis and pearlis of pryce
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