A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Outpay, v. P.t. and p.p. owt- and -payit, -pait. [Out adv. 20.] tr. In Selkirk and Roxburgh: To pay in full, to settle (a due payment). —1503 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. 2.
To pownd all the said landis … quhill tyme the said annualis be out payit without fraud or gill 1520 Ib. (ed.) 57.
And outpayit the ferm of the said myll for the yer bygayn 1539 Ib. 208.
Dischairges Jhone Mithag, our bursair, out pait all thingis with man and penny in tymes bigane c 1542 Prot. Bk. Sir Wm. Corbet 23.
On the Sondaye … with the gwydman viii d. … owtpayit and done
