A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Oolest, appar. north-eastern ‘reversed’ spelling of Elest n. a fault. —1613 Cranna Fraserburgh 183.
[An] oolest and insemelie thing in the toun
