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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1513
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Hidowis, Hidwis, a. Also: hidwys, -wise, hydwis, -wys; hiddowis, -ouis. [ME. hidowes, var. of hidows(e Hidous a.] Hideous.(a) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1802.
Craggis hie, Richt hidowis apon for to se c1450-2 Howlat 952.
This howlat hidowis of hair and of hyde a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1332.
Desyrand … till eschape the hidowis hole of hell c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 164.
Hiddowis, haw, and holkit is thyne ee c1500-c1512 Id. xxxii. 57.
Throw hiddowis ȝowling of the wowf 1513 Doug. vi. iv. 3 (Sm.).
A hiddouis hole, depe gapand and grisly(b) 1375 Barb. iii. 724.
Blyth … that thai war sua Eschapyt thai hidwys wawis fra 1375 Ib. xiii. 43.
The arrowis … ane hydwis schour can ma a1400 Legends of the Saints xxviii. 686.
The puple herd … the thonir that hydwis was c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi. 258.
Aferd thai war with hidwis noyis and dyne c1475 Ib. xi. 121.
With his gud suerd he maid a hidwys wound c1420 Wynt. i. 1209 (W).
All the erd than opnit doune Sa vgsum, hidwise and sa fell 1513 Doug. ii. viii. 4.
Thar was ane hydwys batale forto seyn 1513 Ib. viii. v. 42.
Vndre a roik … Thou slew and rent the hydwys lyoun skyn
