A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mixture, Mixtour, n. Also: mixtiour. [e.m.E. (1460–7) mixture, myxture, L. mixtūra, F. mixture (OF. mest-, misture).] A mixture or compound, also, an alloy; also, the act of mixing, compounding or alloying.1489 Acts II 221/1.
That na goldsmythis sall mak mixtour nor put fals layis in the said mettallis Ib.
Goldsmythis quhilkis layis and makkis fals mixtouris of ewill metale a1500 Seven S. 2066.
Quhen he had sene that ill mixture [: forfure] That mycht nocht drop in to na place Bot on the pyot a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 1231.
Of diuers spicis a sindry mixtour [: saluiour, cure, demure] 1570 Leslie 243.
Evill drogges or onlerned mixtour thairof 1682 New Mills Manuf. 25.
The coursest of these clothes either black or mixture
b. Bot, without mixture, without admixture or adulteration, unadulterated, pure.1549 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 269.
Penny breid … fresche, veill bouttit and without mixtiour 1637 Dysart Rec. 73.
Guid and sufficiente quhyt candile but mixture or craking a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1682) 38.
A death that hath the wine of the wrath of God without mixture in the cup of his indignation
