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: 1375-1400, 1475-1500
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Graith, a. Also: graithe, grath(e. [Northern ME. graith (a 1300), ME. greiðe (a 1225), ON. greið-r.] Ready, prompt, clear; straight, direct. (Only in early poetry.)1375 Barb. iv. 759.
The euill spirit … gaf rycht graith ansueir hir to a1400 Legends of the Saints vii. 580.
Grathe answer cuth nan be mad a1400 Ib. xxiv. 249.
Til hyme grath takine gaf scho thane, Quhare-by he suld that mane ken a1400 Ib. xxix. 891.
He … be thar taknis grath wit had That thai war his twa sonnis dere c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v. 76.
Vndyr ane ayk, wyth men about him set, Wallace mycht nocht a graith straik on him gett c1475 Ib. 959. c1475 Ib. 135.
Thair sloith hund the graith gait till him ȝeid c1475 Ib. ix. 104.
Rycht weill ȝe may him ken, Throu graith takynnys, fullclerly by his men a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 389.
Graith thocht of the grant had the gude King
