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: 1500-1512, 1569-1599
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New-fund, ppl. a. [e.m.E. new(e found(e (c 1496), fond.] Newly discovered or invented. a. With reference to America or parts of it. b. In general. —a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvi. 62.
It micht have cuming in schortar quhyll Fra Calȝecot and the new-fund yle 1586 Misc. Bann. C. II. 211.
[A book called] New-Fund Warld 1599 Rollock I. 372.
Bot quhen scho [sc. the Gospel] is out of Scotland and Ingland baith, scho can gang and it wer to all thir new-fund-landis and abyde thairb. a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS clxxiii. 6.
Sum sair molest Be newe fund lawes
