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: 1639-1700+
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Prospect, -speck, n.2 [Only Sc., shortened f. prospect-glasse, see Prospect,n.1] A spy-glass, field-glass or telescope. Also comb. and in fig. context.1639 Baillie I 210.
The king himself beholding us through a prospect did conjecture us to be sixteen or eighteen thousand men 1644 Edinburgh Testaments LXI 16 b.
Tua prospectes estimat baith to xxxvi s 1673 Lauder Notices Affairs I 88.
Turning to themselfes the wrong and magnifeing end of the prospect [spy-glas] 1685 Burnet Lett. iii (1686) 169.
But as I looked at this statue very attentively through a little prospect that I carried with me, it appeared plainly to have the face of a young woman, and was very unlike that of Pope Nicolas the IV 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 282.
They look upon sin with the wrong end of the prospect, that look otherwise; and that makes the sin to seem to be both far off and small 1702 Foulis Acc. Bk. 304.
The account of the 2 dollers Jamie Gray got for helping my prospeckcomb. 1645–6 J. Hope Diary 158.
He told me that the most exquisite prospect maker … is one Mr Evard in Delfefig. 1653 Binning Wks. 652.
The Christian should get upon the watch-tower of the word, and look through the prospect of faith round about him
