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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1699
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Mad(d)er, Malder, Maider, Mather, n. Also: mad(d)ir, -yr, -ur; maldir, maulder; maydr; maither, mether, meather. [ME. mader, -re, madder, e.m.E. mather, OE. mædere, mæddre (ON. maðra).]
The root of the plant, madder, as a commodity; the dyestuff prepared from this.(a) 14.. Acts I. 304/2.
Of a soume of madyr or wauld on a hors 1 d. 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 31/1.
j poke of mader 1499 Halyb. 179.
A bayll madir weand 850 li. 1505 Exchequer Rolls XII. 372.
Madur 1520 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 197. 1523 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. fol. 100 b.
Ane hundretht mader 1546 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 126. 1556 Perth Guildry 301 (14 May).
Ony stapill gudis madir alme saip or vtheris 1564 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 187.
That … nane … sall lit ony maner of cullouris … with brissell [etc.] … bot … with mader, alme, glew, and sic trew colouris as … is vsit amangis men of honestie1567–8 Inverness Rec. I. 160.
Selling of blew woll, mader and allme1570 Ib. 190.16.. Adv. MS. 22.2.11.
Ane unce of reed mader 1625 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III. 198. 1626 Glasg. Chart. II. 581. 1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 289.
Madur(b) 1521–2 Old Dundee II. 240.
The ballandis for the maddir 1543 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 187.
vj doussoun of madder 1545 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. XIX. (Jam.).
Madder, alm, walde [etc.](c) 1549 Perth Guildry 265 (7 Feb.).
Absoluit of the clam of tua hundreth maldir 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 1.
Ane polk of malder 1583 Wedderb. Compt. Bk. 210.
Ane ballof maldir, tua haren treis, … tua ballis of malder 1635 Brechin Testaments V. 172.
Aucht stanis malder at ix s. the pund 1640 Ib. 289 b.
Tua hundretht pound wecht of maulder at xxx lib. the hundretht(d) 1588 Wedderb. Compt Bk. 220.
Twa pokis of hemp, ane ball of maydr 1628 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 266.
Nyne polkis of maider 1680 Blackness Customs 5 b.
Ane ball maider weycht nyne hundretht & fyftie pund(e) 1644 Edinburgh Testaments LXI. 38.
Mather 1685 Inverness Customs 7.
Ane half ball mather 1694 Dunbar Social Life I. 148.(f) 1616 Edinburgh Testaments XLIX. 162.
Ane poik vnsufficient maither pryce tua hunderetht scoir tua pundis vij s. & ix d. 1621 Ib. LI. 111. 1645 Ib. LXI. 118.(g) 1664 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 639.
Meather 1667 Edinb. B. Rec. X. 26.
For eatch ball of mether weighting ane thousand pund weight ten shilling
b. Attrib. or comb. with lit, polk, yard.1618 Trial Isobel Inch 6.
The sey … becum reid like reid madder litt 1627 Edinburgh Testaments LIV. 42 b.
ijc [pound] wecht of mather litt at xx li. the hundretht 1649 Ib. LXIV. 170. —1576 Ib. IV. 291.
Ane boddome of ane mader polk —1505 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 20.
Ane estald the maddyr yard
