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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1494-1556
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(Refand,) Revand, Rav(e)and, ppl. adj. Also: rew-. [Sc. form corresp. to Refing ppl. adj.] That preys or thieves; predatory. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvii 359.
A rewand rawine come in hy a1500 Henr. Fab. 946.
Na reuand beistis nouther ryn nor ryde a1500 Ib. 1953.
Ane reuand volff that leuit vpon purches 1494 Loutfut MS 34a.
& quhen he is growin he is callit lus and than he is rycht rewand c1520-c1535 Nisbet Acts xx 29.
Revand [P. rauyschinge] woluis sal entir into you 1535 Stewart 36697.
Thir revand rukis, memberis of Mahoun 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 2/17.
The rauand sauuage volffis … that deuoris … scheip for ther pray 1556 Lauder Off. Kings 352.
Gredie raueand wolfis
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