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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1611
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(Mous-,) Muse-marke, n. [Also in the later dial. (of Allan Ramsay).] A birth-mark resembling a mouse. —1611 Criminal Trials III. 196.
The laird of Coleraine … driming of him in his sleipe and that he had a muse-marke under his left pape
