A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nun-, Non-, Nownlaw, metanalysed forms of Unlaw n. —1434–5 Ayr B. Ct. 31 Jan.
Ilky man seuerly beand in a nownlaw 1459 Rep. Hist. MSS. Var. Coll. V. 81.
In an nunlaw of this curt for caus [etc.] Ib. 82.
In a nonlaw
