A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Refres(c)h(e)ing, -yng(e, vbl. n. Also: refress-. [ME and e.m.E. refreischinge (Wyclif), -freschynge (c1400) act of refreshing, also fresh supplies of food (1480–).] The act or action of refreshing, in various senses of Refre(s)ch(e v.; refreshment given or received.a1400 Leg. S. xxxii 738.
[The fire] disesit thame na thinge Bot as baume gud [? erron. for geif] refreschynge ?1423 Letter to James I in Edinb. Chart. 213.
And as tuechand a portion of our gudis to be lent to the refressyng of yhur hey estate [etc.] c1515 Asl. MS I 75/8.
In helpe and refreschyng of the pure 1533 Boece 34.
He socht victualis and bestiall for refresching of his folkis 1560 Acts II 529/1.
We … beleif that the tyme of refrescheing and restitutioun of all thingis sall cum [etc.] 1594 Charteris Wall. Pref. 170.
Weryit for fault of meit & refresching and laiking of sleip a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 146.
When parents and children … haue not for the refreshing of themselves and their families
b. Supplies (of food, etc.).1570 Leslie 211.
Tending be thame to send sum pulder and uther refreshing to the toune
