A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1607, 1700+
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Murray, -ey, Murrie, Morrie, a. Also: mwré. [ME. (n. and adj.) morre (1338), murre (1356), ME. and e.m.E. (n. and adj.) morrey (1403), murrey (15th c.), murry, OF. moré a. and n., morée fem. n.] Of the colour of the mulberry, of a reddish purple colour.1490 Treasurer's Accounts I. 155.
For ij elne of murray claytht in grayne to be him a lang gown 1530 Balmerino and L. Chart. ii. 30.
ix pairs of schets therof mwre ane pair 1573 Edinburgh Testaments III. 30 b.
Tua coittis barrit with veluot the ane blak & the vther of murray gray 1600 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 58.
Morrie 1605 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A. 37 b.
vij elis of Pareis murrie Londoun claith to be ȝour … cloik 1607 Edinburgh Testaments XLIII. 41.
Sevin elnes of murray blak
b. Applied to a person, also comb. in murray-faced, = of a sanguine complexion, mulberry-faced. —1705 Boharm Kirk S. 24 June.
Saying, Christ curse thee, thou murray faced doge 1705 Ib.
Confessed that he called the said John Thomson thief and thief-faced loune and murray doge
