A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1500-1513
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Mart, n.2 [ME. (Chaucer) and e.m.E., L. Mart-em acc., Mart-is gen., etc., oblique case forms of Mārs Mars.] = Mars. —a. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxi. 397.
The mone … In heldyne was of Martis house & in the bowndis of Saturnusb. c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxxiii. 67.
The Martis smyth Wlcanus 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 510.
The horribill stern dedys of Mart 1513 Ib. vii. x. 20.
Martys cruel dreid and his offence 1513 Ib. ii. Prol. 16, vii. ix. 25.
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