A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Romatye. [Cf. ME rewmatyk (1398) rheumatic, also e.m.E. rheumie (1601) moist, damp, wet.] ? Damp, and so harmful to the health. —1571 Cal. Sc. P. III 561.
As I ame ȝet still in a cave, being a place very romatye and unholdsame, and that without a bedde
