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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: 1399-1609

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Gredy, a. Also: gredie, greedie, greidie, greadie; gridie, grydy; greddie. [e.m.E. greedie, greadye, ME. gredy, gredie, OE. grǽdiᵹ.] Greedy. a. Of persons and animals, or transf. of things. b. Of appetites, desires, disposition, etc.a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxix. 751.
A gredy wolf hynt me
c1420 Wynt. i. 415.
That foule … fell on caryoun all gredy
1456 Hay II. 57/32.
A realme quhare lordis … ar gredy to gudis
a1500 Henr. Fab. 2891.
All thair flesche wald scant be half ane fill … unto that gredie gled
1513 Doug. x. xii. 98.
A hungry lyon … his gredy gammis bedyis with the red blude
1550 Criminal Trials I. 354.
He and his brother begouthe to grow greidie
c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 541.
Euer gredie, and gaping still for more
a1568 Scott iv. 90.
The moir degest and grave, The grydiar to grip it
a1578 Pitsc. I. 19/2.
He over ran evirie man lyk ane greddie and vnsaceabill tyrane
a1578 Ib. 127/23.
Ane greit part of the Inglischemen … , gredy for pray of geir
1596 Dalr. I. 299/25.
Grim, … greidie of authoritie, cleimes rycht to the kingdome
a1598 Ferg. Prov. 23.
Ane gridie man God heatis
transf. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1743.
That gredy flude swelled
b. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 1048.
Thru priyd & awaris gredy
1456 Hay I. 27/26.
The gredy couatis of the said Bartilmew
a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1220.
Ȝour gredy thrist tressour to multiplie
c1515 Asloan MS I. 177/15.
Gredy hert followis gret scaith
1562-3 Winȝet II. 13/1.
Quhare thai … hes tane sa gredy a fil … of the poysoun
1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 74.
Ane gredie stomokis appetyte
a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xlvii. 8.
Sik gredie grippis I feell
1609 Skene Reg. Maj. Pref. A 3.
The … gredie ambition of them, quha were called kirkmen

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