A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Pepulus, a. [Appar. a conflation of Pepill n. and Popul(o)us a.] Populous. —1549 Compl. 20/35.
The maist pepulus toune abufe the eird