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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.

Now-on-day(e)s, -dais, adv. [ME. (north.) now on days (c 1400), also on daies nou (Gower).] = Now-a-dayis. —1456 Hay I. 108/32.
Bot now on dayes sik lawis ar nocht wele kepit 1513 Doug. xi. vi. 46.
Iapigya … That now on days Apulȝe clepyng we 1535 Stewart 34956.
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