A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lok(k)erit, Lokryt, ppl. a. Also: lokkyrrit. [North. ME. lokerde (Morte Arth.), late e.m.E. lockard (a 1682), and cf. mod. north midl. Eng. dial. (Lancs., Yorks., Derbysh.) lockered entangled, matted (hair); f. as Lok(k)erand ppl. a.] Curled, curly. (Chiefly of hair.) —1513 Doug. v. vi. 116.
A bustuus lyonys skyn … With goldyn clewys, lokkerit and weghty Ib. vii. xiii. 8.
Quharon his helm … With cristis thre lyke til ane lokkyrrit [Sm. lokerit] mane Ib. viii. iii. 194. Ib. x. xiv. 100.
Lyke till a lokryt mayn with mony fas Ib. xi. x. 26.
[The horse] His lokkyrrit mayn schakand wantonly
