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: 1499-1531, 1604-1605
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Rot(t, Rotte, n.1 [ME and e.m.E. rotte (Cursor M.), ‘appar. of Scand. origin’ (OED).] a. Decay; putrefaction. b. A disease causing putrescence of the flesh, or wasting of the body. c. ? As part of an invented name. —a. 1531 Bell. Boece xii.
As precius balme revertis thingis sare And makis thaim of rot impacient —b. a1605 Montg. Flyt. 323 (H).
The painfull poplisie and pest, The rotte, the roupe, and the old rest —c. a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow i 344.
And Rousty Rottis ‘The Routis’
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