A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Harskly, -elie, adv. [Harsk a.] Roughly, harshly. —a1400 Leg. S. xxviii. 437.
The maydine … hynt hyme harskly be the hare 1610 Hume in Calderwood VII. 85.
The word … sounds so harskelie … at the first hearing
