A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lompnyt, p.p. (? Merely corrupt for lownyt as in MS. C: an alternative possibility is to read lompyt [cf. ME. lumping ppl. a. (14th c.) weighing heavy, lumped ppl. a. (c 1425) made into a lump] f. lomp Lump n., in some such sense as ‘clogged, massed’.) —Brus xv. 276 (E).
A myle wes betuix the seys Bot that wes lompnyt [v.rr. lownyt, loned] all with treis
