A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1501-1513, 1603
[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]
(Roum,) Rowm, v.2 [ME and e.m.E. rowme(n (Piers Plowman), room (1602), var. of rome to roam, of obscure ulterior origin.] a. intr. To walk about aimlessly; to roam (about, to and fra (fro)). b. tr. To wander through (a place). —a. 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 28.
Quhill that I rowmed in that paradice 1513 Id. Æn. i vii 63.
For as he went … Rowmyng about the large tempill scheyn 1513 Ib. v iv 53.
Rowmyng to and fra hys schyp our all Mynestheus gan [etc.] 1513 Ib. xii Prol. 201.
Thochtfull luffaris rowmys [Ruddim. rownyis, E., Ruthv. rownys] to and fro —b. 1603 Philotus 199.
Be ȝe haue rowmit ane alley thryse, It is ane myle almaist
