A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Likly, -lie, Lykly, v. [Likly a. ? 5.] tr. ? To make (a rhyme in verse) like its rhyme-word, to make it true or exact. —1513 Doug. i. Prol. 124.
Or than to mak my sayng schort sum tyme Mair compendyus or to lykly [v.rr. likly, -lie] my ryme
