A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1596-1622
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Prospect, n.1 [e.m.E. and late ME prospect(e (a 1450), -pect, L. prōspectus a look out, view, f. prōspicere to look forward. Cf. F. prospect 16th c. in Littré). Also comb. in prospect-glasse Prospect n.2 (1617) etc.] To be on the prospect (of a place), to offer an extensive view. Comb. in prospect-glass, = Prospectn.2 —a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 370.
He had his watches placit upon the small montaynes that ar on the prospect of the north syd of Carlisle, … that he might be immediatlie adverteist be thayme for the saiftie of his horsemen 1622 J. Fergusson The White Hind 103 (citing Taymouth & Breadalbane Papers).
When they have done with the prospect-glass get it from them again
