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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: 1450-1501, 1579-1603, 1680-1684

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Mony-, Mon(n)icord, n. [Sc. var. of Monocord.] A monochord. Also plur. as sing. and in pair of monicordis, id.(1) 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. 378.
Monycord, organe, tympane, and cymbell
(2) c1450-2 Howlat 758.
The crovde, and the monycordis, the gittyrnis gay
1603 Elgin Rec. II. 398.
To instruct … the ȝowthe … to play vpoun all musicall instrumentis speciallie virginallis, monicordis, luit, seister
(3) 1497 Treasurer's Accounts I. 329.
For bering of a pare of monicordis of the Kingis fra Abirdene to Striuelin
1579 Edinburgh Testaments VII. 176.
Ane pair of monycordis
1680 Moncreiffs 665. 1684 Brechin Testaments VII. 117.
Ane pair of old monnicords estimat to iij lib.

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