A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1500, 1686
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Resting, -yng, vbl. n.3 [Rest v.3] a. The act of stopping or halting. For a note on the possibility of ambiguity with Resting vbl. n.1, see Rest n.3 b. The action of placing property under arrestment. See also Rest v.3 4. —a. a1500 Golagros and Gawane 499.
Yit sal I mak thame vnrufe, foroutin resting c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v 719.
To the Corhed with out restyng he raid —b. 1686 Lauder Notices Affairs II 765.
Byres of Coats pershues the toune of Edinburgh … for resting a milne-dam on his ground and bigging their girnell-houses within his property
