A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1535-1572
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(Plain,) Plane, n.2 [e.m.E. playn (c 1550).] a. = Plaint n. 3. b. = Plaint n. 4. —a. 1535 Stewart 39045.
Power to execute the law Be court and plane —b. 1572 Satirical Poems xxxii. 78.
Scho greit with barne syne gaif the gaist with plane [: slane p.p.]