A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1499-1513, 1590
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Mete, Meit, v.3 P.t. met(t. [ME. and e.m.E. mete(n, meete(n, p.t. mett(e, OE. mǽtan, p.t. mǽtte.] tr. To dream. —a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 363.
But so befell hyme that nycht to meit [: spreit] An aperans 1513 Doug. ii. v. 36.
Quhen the fyrst quyete Of naturale sleip … Stelis on fordoverit mortale creaturis And in thar swewynnys metis quent figuris c1590 Fowler I. 373/16.
To dreame of … drownings in the deipe, The persons that are flematyke Oft metethe in ther sleip —p.t. ? a 1500 Acts I. (Facs.) 191 red.
Ande thrw ane vysiown he mett in his slepe at Dunfermlyne a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 437.
The samyne night the king his sweuen met
