A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mismak, -make, v. P.t. -maid. [ME. mysmake (c 1400), e.m.E. mismake (1613).] tr. a. To make (clothes etc.) badly, to misshape. b. To unmake, depose. —c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxviii. 10.
That God mismakkis [M. -makis] ȝe do amend a1568 Bann. MS. 140 a/35.
For clayis that thow mismaid and mankit 1575 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 41.
That we haid spokine off his graice, that we haid maid his graice and we waild mismak him
