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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: 1507, 1567-1680

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Metin(g, vbl. n.2 Also: metein(g, meitting, meeting. [ME. (Wyclif) and e.m.E. meting, -yng(e, e.m.E. meeting (1644), f. Mete v.2 Cf. Metting.] Measuring. = Metting vbl. n. 1. b. In witchcraft. Cf. Metting vbl. n. 1 e, Mete v.2 b and Met p.p. 1 b. c. Dealing out, apportioning. fig. Cf. Met v. 1 b.1507 Treasurer's Accounts III. 397.
For meting and grathing of the vises. iij s.
1589-1600 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 50 a.
The haill exspenes of thes cloyth comes to meteing paking and wther charges is xxviii s.
1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 146.
In mesuring and meting of land be biging and puting vpe wpone the land of Cragtoun … of carines of stane
1601 Dundee Shipping P. 70.
For … expennsis metein the salt 17 R.
1606 Inverness Rec. II. 34.
Ane lytill measower for meitting of twa pennorth of great salt
1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 49.
To the metster for meting 24 daill coalls
b. 1649 Stow 151.
[His wife, at the same time, was accused of practising witchcraft by] meeting the belt
c. a1568 Bannatyne MS 71 a/6.
The alteratioun … Off manis estait … is … Godis awin ordinance Meting all tyme to our lyfe les & mair

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