A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Pime,) Pyme, n. [? Imitative.] A plaintive cry. —a1500 Henr. Fab. 1788 (Bann.).
The suallow suyft put furth a piteous pyme [MS. pryme; H pyme]
