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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1438, 1535
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Hide(o)usly, -lie, adv. [e.m.E. hideously (16th c.).] = Hidwisly adv. — 1535 Stewart 32092.
Euirilkane … had … ane grit horne, … Quhair[in] tha spak richt hideuslie and how ?1438 Alex. i. 828.
Trumpetis … Soundit sa hideously
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