A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lap(p)er(e)d, ppl. a. [Later Sc. var. of Loppirit ppl. a.: cf. e.m.E. lappered (1597) and Lapperv. In the mod. dial., Sc. and north Eng.] Clotted (blood), curdled (milk). —(1) 1647 Hope Diary 138.
Some varie blacke water lyke lappered blood in the right concavitie [of the heart] 1684 Law Memor. 179.
A showr that turned to lapered blood 1688 Tryal Philip Standsfield 15.
That there was blood about the defuncts neck all lapper'd and bruised before incision was made —(2) a1706 Blythsome Wedding in Watson's Coll. i. 10.
There will be good lapper'd-milk kebucks, And sowens, and farles, and baps
