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: 1558-1678
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Lamed, Laymed, Leamd, p.p. and ppl. a. [e.m.E. lamed (a 1586).] = Lamit ppl. a. —1558-66 Knox II. 200.
The aiged, impotent or laymed, quho can [not] travell 1626 Garden Worthies 63.
For loss of such a lord now leam'd Shall she … deploir thé? 1648 Irvine Mun. II. 71.
Widewes and orphants and lamed souldiores 1657 Balfour Ann. I. 132.
Being with a strocke of [a] horsse quyte leamdc 1678 Reg. Panmure I. xlvi.
His short coach, with the leamd horse and wounded postilionb. absol. 1648 Irvine Mun. II. 71.
That money quhilk was awand to the widows fatherles and lamedc. fig. c1590 Fowler I. 138. (iii.) 10.
My songs … The laymed birthe of my blunt brayne
