A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1517-1518
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Laying, vbl. n.2 [f. Lay v.2] Alloying. —1517–8 Acta Conc. Public Aff. 117.
Licencis the erle of Arane to cunȝe xxx uncis of the fynes of the gold of the mynd without ony uthir commixtion or laying
