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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Impossible, a.2 [Cf. e.m.E. impassable (1568).] Impossible to cross. —1656 Lanark Presb. 100.
How a bridge might be bulded over the river, … the Clyd being many tymes impossible
