A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Low, n.3 [Appar. repr. an earlier inflected form of Loch n. (as *loh. inflected *loȝe > *lowe): cf. ME. (west-midl.) loȝe (Pearl), (south-western) the Lowe Lacheryn (Trevisa Higden), and mod. Eng. (chiefly north.) dial. and place-names low. An appar. early example occurs in the place-names Blacketloeshefed and Blaketlou (a 1300 Raine North Durh. App. 74). Cf. also Lowis n. pl.] A loch, lake. Also attrib. —a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii. 49, 53.
In tha[t] low [supra a locht nere that cyte] lurkit that tyme A serpent fel, … & of the low … Wald cum fore to get his fude —c1420 Wynt. vi. 654 (L): see Loch n. b. —attrib. a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii. 208.
Scho … to the low bank went in hy
