A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Ins(c)h(e, varr. of Inch n.1 —1533 Boece xii. xvi. 484b.
[The boar's] tuskis … having in lenth xvi insch c 1651 Douglas Corr. 264.
You wold … haue bidden (as they say) the inshe as yow haue done the spann 1656 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 163.
That each insche of double solit shoes … be sold at thrie shilling the insh
