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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: 1604-1605
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Louslie, a. [? Lows a. (? cf. sense 14), with -lie, -ly adj.-forming suffix.] Characterized by looseness or free movement (as of the bowels or of nasal mucus). — a1605 Montg. Flyt. 340 (T).
The louslie phirasie, the tarrie vncame
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