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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

(Pres-,) Preisit, ppl. adj. (Cf. e.m.E. presse saile (1592), mod. Eng. prest sail (1710), ‘as much sail as the state of the wind, etc., will permit a ship to carry’, also Pres v.1, Press v.1) —15.. Clar. v 2876.
Up gois the saillis preisit in the mase Of all the schipis of King Clariodus

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