A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gram, Grame, n. [Northern ME. grame, gram (a 1300), midl. and south. grome, grom, OE. grama.] a. Sorrow, distress, trouble. b. Malice. (Only in verse, esp. in Douglas.) —a. a1500 Quare Jel. 290.
Ȝit to hir is double wo and grame [: blame] 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 55.
Now wo, now weill, … Now gam, now gram Id. Æn. iv. Prol. 162.
Al ȝour solace sal return in gram [: gam] Ib. viii. Prol. 31.
The gallyart groym grunschis at grammys hym grevis Id. K. Hart. 48.
No greif nor grame suld grayth thame so agast —b. Id. Pal. Hon. ii. 220.
One of tho, Quhilk of thair feid and malice neuer ho; Out on sic gram!
