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: 1654-1688
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(Kuthe,) Kuythe, n. Also: quith. [In the mod. Sc. dial. of Shetland, Orkney and Banffsh. only, as cuithe, cooth, kuithe, queethe, etc.: cf. Norw. dial. kod young fish, Icel. kóð young of plaice.] A half-grown coalfish. — 1654 Blaeu's Atlas, Orcadum Descr. 138.
Piscium variorum, præcipue silurorum minimorum majorum et maximorum (vulgo sellaks, kuythes, colmouses) captura felix a1688 Wallace Orkney 22.
Seven or eight quiths (a fish about the bigness of a whitting)
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