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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1667
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Mud(d)le, v.2 [? Cf. e.m.E. muddle, (1596) to destroy the clearness of (colours), (1607) to wallow in mud, (1676) to make muddy, etc., and Mud(d)lev.1, and also Med(d)ill v. 1 a, to mix, Middill v. 1, to compound (a substance).] tr. ? To adulterate (malt). — 1667 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 90.
For that severall maltmen mudles there malt, quherby they grind fyve furlotis for a boll and yit gives that same boll to the brewers for fyve furlotis 1667 Ib.
That all such mudlit malt that sall be brought heirafter to the mylnes to grind be confiscat
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