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: 1399-1458, 1521-1566
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Paste, Paist, n.1 Also: pest. [ME. and e.m.E. past(e, paast, as a dough (Piers Plowman), as a glue (1530), etc. Cf. Paste,n.2] A paste made of flour mixed with water or milk; dough. b. Wad-paist, ? a paste-like sludge or sediment resulting from the preparation of woad. —?a1400 Assise Bread in Bute MS. fol. 170.
The paste of the pany wastel c1420 Wynt. i. 440.
Tyll ete fleyhs … Rostyt sodyn or in paste [: mast; W. paist] 1458 Perth Guildry MS. i.
A lafe to conten bakin and dry xxiiii vnce and xxvi paste and that to be of gud stufe 1521 Dundee B. Ct. I. fol. 41.
Will Wilson … is ordanit that & he or ony of his seruands in his werk hous cast wad paist in the burn or dam to pay xl s. to our lady werk1553 Blackfriars Perth 234.
Certane neichbours … sew ane pest of wald seyd in the … croft eftir that it was twyce tyllit to the beir seid to the utter destruction of the said croft 1566 Old Dundee I. 101.
That na persons … cast or toum ony closets waid pest or ony other unleful thing in the castle burn
