A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mach, n.2 Also: mache, macht, magh. [Var. of Maich or of Mauch n.1] A male connection by marriage.a. A son-in-law. b. A brother-in-law.a. 1513 Doug. vii. i. 165 (Sm.).
To be thi mach sall cum a alyenar Ib. v. 81 (Sm.).
Lat the eild fader and magh knyt wp frendschip Ib. vi. 62.b. a1400 Leg. S. xxi. 31.
Hyre mach Ib. xliii. 214, 8.
My mach(e
c. Unascertained instances:a1400 Leg. S. vi. 596.
The kynge at the consell Of his macht [L. cognatus] 1497 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 60.
Androw Murray … and Johne Litstar his mache 1500 Reg. Privy S. I. 83/2.
George Armstrang, Hectouris bruther, Wilȝam Elwald his mach
