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: 1399-1420, 1513-1533
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Inviroun, Inveroun, adv. Also: inviron(e, invyroun(e, in virone, in virroune; (inveroum). [ME. (once) in viroun (c 1375): cf. Enveron. Gen. written as one word but in earlier use also as two.] Round about.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 927.
Folk … That stud a-bout hym in virroune a1400 Ib. xl. 437.
[He] ȝed a-boute thame in virone c1420 Wynt. iv. 2581 (W).
All about it the circumscriptioun, Writtin weill sa invyroune 1533 Boece ii. iv. 63.
That certane grete stanys … suld be invirone and in cirkill 1533 Ib. xii. ii. 457 b; etc.
Ane navin … at Kingorne was arrivit, the men war landit and invirone heryit all the cuntre(b) 1513 Doug. x. ix. 11.
The bytand blaid abowt hym inveroum Amyd the rowtis reddis large rovm 1513 Ib. xiii. v. 4.
Fame … with large clamour fyllys inveroun Thar myndis all
