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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1606-1614, 1677
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(Schaddy,) Shaddy, -ie, adj. [S(c)had n.] a. Affording shade. b. = S(c)had(d)ow n. 9 a. —a. 1606 Craig ii 151.
We shall on the mountains go, In shaddie vmbers too and fro: In vallies low, and on the bray c1614 Mure Dido & Æneas i 523.
A shaddy groave amidst this citty grew —b. 1677 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 37.
[The lands of Tillienaid as well the sunny as the shady half]
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