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

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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1586-1624

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( Ras,) Rais(e, attrib. (? Aphetic form of Arras, the name of the town (cf. Raschit p.p.). Cf. also late north. ME canvas of arras werk (1442).) —1586 Perth B. Ct. 22 Nov.
Four lib. four schillingis for Rais hempe 1624 Edinburgh Testaments LII 171.
xij staine Raise hempt at xlvj s. viij s. the staine wecht

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