A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1666-1688
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Ow, Owe, v.2 [e.m.E. and ME. owe, pres. t. owes, oweth: cf. Aw v.] tr. a. To own. b. To owe. —1666 Lauder Jrnl. 133.
He … demandes that he that owes the cow that had drunk his milk pay him it 1688 Glasgow B. Rec. III. 412.
To whom … he did ow honour and reverence
