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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1621
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Hudit, a. Also: huddit, hoddit. [e.m.E. hooded (1590), ME. hodid, hodyd (c 1440).] Wearing a hood. Also hudit craw, the hooded crow. — c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 71.
The hudit crawis his hair furth ruggit 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 39/13.
The huddit crauis cryit varrok varrok 1549 Ib. 42/23.
I beheld mony hudit hirdis blauuand ther buc hornis 1591-2 Rob Stene 14.
Behald and see how he is hudit, And graith [sic] up in the grewhoundis skin 1621 Black Bk. Taymouth 356.
That na tenant … suffer nather ruck, hoddit craw nor pyatis to big … in thair rowmes
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