A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Pargening,) Pergenyng, -inyng, vbl.n. Also: -ynyng, -ionyinge, -jonyng. [Late north. ME. pargenynge (1449–50), pergenyng (1489): cf. ME. (Wyclif, etc.) and e.m.E. pargeting.] Plastering.1507 Rentale Dunkeld. 92.
[To a man bringing clay and sand to the church] in lie pergynyng et muris 1531–2 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I. 109. 1535–6 Ib. 191.
For perginyng harling and beting of the glasin wyndois 1538–9 Ib. 257.
Perjonyng 1542 Treas. Acc. VIII. 133.
For lv layd of lyme … to the pergenyng of the Register Hous and filling of the wallis 1563–4 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 192.
The haill rest of the lyme, sand, glew, watter furneist be the said pergionar and givin to him with his twa servandis for pergionyinge baith the chalmeris
