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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Hippit, adj. [Hip n.1] Having hips of a specified kind. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 179.
Hippit as an harrow Ib. 185.
Pure hippit [M. pure pyn hippit], vgly averill1539 Inv. Wardrobe 44.
Ane uther pair [of hose] of crammesy velvett ... hippit with fresit claith of silvir1540 Lynd. Sat. 151 (B).
Thankit be God, I am weill hippit 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV. 79.
Ane auld flekat hippit meir

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