A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pansing, vbl. n. Also: panss-. [Pans v.] a. Thinking; meditation; thoughts, collectively. b. The tending or dressing (of someone hurt or wounded) (of his hurt).a. a1568 Henr. Bann. MS. 215a/27.
Hir hat suld be of fair having … Hir patelet of gud pansing c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxix. 13.
Than pansing of penuritie Revis that fra my remembrance 1587-99 Hume viii. 17.
My pansing dois augment my paine a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxviii. 2.
Melancholie … With painfull pansing comis apaceb. 1576 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 10.
Andro Mylne chirurgeane with quhome he wes at the pansing of the said Andro Hammeltoun 1579–80 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 152.
Thai had oft and sindry tymes viseit and sene the pansing, dressing, curing, and handling of Robert Asbowane, quha wes laitlie hurt 1587 Ib. 489.
In curing and pansing of Mathow Weiche of ane vlcer in his fute 1589 St. A. B. Ct. 10 Oct.
And siclyk to … pay the (? barbour) for curing and panssing of his wound 1660 Edinb. Surgeons 301.
Iff any chyugicall [sic] operatioun occure … that he sall haue no forder … dealling therewith but for the first pansing
