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: 1500-1599
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(Meter,) Meitter, v. [Late ME. (c 1430) and e.m.E. metyr, meeter, mitre, f. Meter,n.] intr. To versify, to render in verse. —15.. Clariodus v. 2259.
Bot I, … Can not so meitter as thay put in prose. Full oft I put the nettiil for the rose
