A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Infest, a. [L. infestus.] Hostile. —1513 Doug. vii. viii. 15.
This hellis wench infest Ane hasty fury on his hundis kest Ib. xii. iii. 51.
Drances, that had full gret envy At ȝyng Turnus, always to hym infest
