A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quher(e)be, rel. adv. Cf. Quhar(e)be. As compound relative: That by means of which, that whereby. —c1616 Hume Orthog. 34.
A distinction is quherbe sentences are distinguished in wryting and reading
