A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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(Hunyt,) Hwnyt, Hunied, a. [ME. honyed (c 1374).] Honeyed. a.fig. b. Of grain or meal: ? Sweetened by having been allowed to heat and ferment in store. —a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvii. 17.
Defy the warld, … With gallin hart, and hwnyt hals —b. 1671 Forbes Baron Ct. 287.
They sall pey the samen [meal] in … frie bot heatting or sweit meill or hunied in any cais Ib.
Ewry … master of ewry myln sall tack specciall care … that it be not speilt or hunied cornes
