A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Repalation, n. [? Nonce-formation from Eng. palate.] ? The action of bringing up into the mouth again. —a1689 Cleland 57.
Whither it be … from some spitful exhalations, From surfet excesse or repalations, … Scotland's troubled with a Test
