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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1458-1641

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Oukly, Oulk-, Olklie, adv. Also: ouck-, owk-, owyk-, owlk-, ok-, uk-, wk-, ulk- and -lie, -elie, -le(y. [Cf. Woukly.] Weekly: Every week, each week; once a week, at intervals of a week; (a certain number or amount) per week.(a) 1458 Perth Guildry 451 (10 Nov.).
To be payit oukly
1463 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 24.
The said Dauy … sal gyf oukly for the hale yeir [etc.]
1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 173.
Quhen ony faut fallis it be oukley refurmyt
1479 Ib. 230.
Owkly
1525 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 76.
To be tayne owyklie
1531 Reg. Soltre 100.
Tuenty sex poundis vsuell mone … ansuerand oukly to ten schillingis
1537 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 413.
Owklie and daylie
1549 Banff Ann. I. 25.
That the said flyscharis heve ouklie gud … stuff
1558-66 Knox I. 275.
Owklie
1590 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. I. 250.
Ouklie
1600-1610 Melvill 22.
Ouklie
1609 S. Leith Rec. 7.
The sessioune … ordaines catechising ouklie
1621 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 94.
That [the poor] be ouklie instructit in [etc.]
(b) 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 178.
Thir gesce … okly to be delyuerit til our seruice
1595 Stirling Merch. Guild 7.
ij d. oklie to be payit be all gild brether
(c) 1600 Glasgow Wrights 46.
And wklie … ilk Settirday eftirnone … to … visite all menis work
(d) 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII. 209.
Monethlie and owlklie
1535–6 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 147.
Havand oulkle v s.
1540–41 Ib. MS. VII. 9 b.
Oulkelie
1553–4 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 112.
For butter to the windoyis oulklie viij d.
1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 603.
Owlklie
1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 210.
Oulklie
1573 Davidson Satirical Poems xlii. 683.
Quhair God appointit oulklie anis At leist [etc.]
1569-73 Bann. Memor. 295.
As from day to day or oulklie
1578 Bk. Carlaverock II. 488.
Oulklie
1584 Digest Justiciary Proc. K. 49.
Taking of xii d. oulkly for the leane of xx s.
1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 225.
Owlklie
1600 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 209.
Four men to be feyit oulklie for casting the watter
1603 Stirling B. Rec. I. 106.
Oulklie
1622-6 Bisset I. 153/12.
Oulklie
1641 Stirling Chart. 117.
Oulklie
(e) 1529–30 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I. 3.
Certane quareouris dischargit olklie and therefter put to task
1532 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 375. 1532 Acts Sederunt i. 3.
To be callit olklie apoun Mononday
1536 Reg. Privy S. II. 331/1. 1581–2 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 41.(f) 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 202.
Anent the convenying of the counsale on Friday vlklie
1605 Aberd. Eccl. Rec. 44.
And vlklie thairefter tua merkis quhill [etc.]

b. Dayly, oukly and monethly (and ȝerely), at all times, constantly.1612 Orkney & Zetl. Sheriff Ct. 19 b.
To content and pay to him the haill proffittis daylie oulklie & monethlie
1633 Inverness Rec. II. 173.
William Ross millar [etc.] … daylie, ouckly and ȝeirlie … awaytakes … malturis [etc.]

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