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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Insang, var. of Evinsang n. (evensong). —1539 Soc. Ant. II. 397.
The lamp … that hingis in the queyr … to be ly[ch]tit at the second bell of the insang and till indur quhill the clerk stik the durris