Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

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

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

(Par-,)Parrel(l)-, -al(l)(o)us, a.¹ Also: -oulus. [e.m.E. parelloust (1545), superl. of *parellous Peril(l)ous a.] = Peril(l)ous a. — c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2728.
And vnder it ane passage parrellus 1528 Lynd. Dreme 366.
Glaid to eschaip those places parrelous We haistit ws 1613 Conv. Burghs II. 382.
In this deid and paroulus tym of ȝeir 1622-6 Bisset II. 233/8.
The cuntrie of Bartanȝe is sa parrallous that [etc.] — a1500 Henr. III. 142/3 (M).
O wickit toung sawand dissentioun … Moir parralous [B. perrellus] nor ony fell poysoun