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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mastic, n. Also: masti(c)k. [ME. masty(c)k (1398), -ik, e.m.E. mastic, F. mastic, late L. mastichum, L. masticha, etc.] The gum or resin, mastic (used in medicine and as an adhesive). Also fig., and comb. in oyle mastick and mastik tree. —1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 38.
Mastic comfortis the stomak, expellis fra the samin all teuch raw fleume
1597 Bk. Rates 7 b.
Inuarte custumes. … Mastik
fig. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 117/30.
Festnit fast uith mastic firme of holie loue
comb. 1598 Edinb. Test. XXXI. 350 b.
Oyle rose, oyle mastick & oyle cammamyle
a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 38.
[Lentiscus,] Anglice, ane mastik tree

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