A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1587-1599
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Hypocras, -crise, n. [e.m.E. hip(p)ocras, hypocrace, -cras (16th c.).] Hippocras. —1513 Doug. i. xi. 67 (R).
Ane wechty cowp … full of the richt hypocras 1587-99 Hume 159/90.
All kinde of delicious … drinks and lickquors, as … hypocrise, and fined wines