A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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(Scaiographie,) Skaiographie, n. (e.m.E. sciographie, sciagraphie the branch of the science of Perspective which deals with the projection of shadows (1598), a sciagraphic delineation or picture (1611), F. sciagraphie, sciographie, L. scia-, sciographia.) —c1616 Hume Orthog. 2.
For the printeres and wryteres of this age, caring for noe more arte then may win the pennie, wil not paen them-selfes to knau whither it be orthographie or skaiographie that doeth the turne
