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: 1499-1513
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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 of Jelusy 290.
Ȝit to hir is double wo and grame [: blame] 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 55.
Now wo, now weill, … Now gam, now gram 1513 Id. Æn. iv. Prol. 162.
Al ȝour solace sal return in gram [: gam] 1513 Ib. viii. Prol. 31.
The gallyart groym grunschis at grammys hym grevis a1500 Id. K. Hart. 48.
No greif nor grame suld grayth thame so agast —b. 1501 Id. Pal. Hon. ii. 220.
One of tho, Quhilk of thair feid and malice neuer ho; Out on sic gram!
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