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: 1513, 1612-1657
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Out-, Owtworn(e, ppl. a. [e.m.E. (1565), p.p. of outwear(e v. to wear out.] Worn out, used up, exhausted, spent. — 1513 Doug. viii. viii. 123.
The dasyt blude gane far by the hait rage Or than the owtworn [Ruddim. outworne] dait and mony ȝeris … Envyis that I suld ioys or bruke empyre 1612 Orkney & Shetl. Test. I. 14 b.
Ane auld outworne hors pryce xxx s. 1657 Mure Hist. Rowallane 237.
The reviveing of the neere expyred & almost outworne knowledge of [etc.]
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