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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1598-1649
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Scolling, Scoalling, vbl. n. [Scoll v. See also Sealling vbl. n.] The action of drinking healths; hence, carousing. —a1599 Rollock Wks. I 395.
Quhen he [sc. the Devil] is … harling them to harlatrie, to murther and villanie, to scolling and drinking 1624 Aberd. B. Rec. II 390.
Vseing of excessive and extraordinarie drinking and scolling … to the sclander of the toune 1633 Aberd. B. Rec. III 54.
The act and ordinance … againis wachting, and scoalling, and superfluous banqueting at baptismes1639 Aberd. B. Rec. III 192. 1649 Acts VI ii 174/1.
Becaus healthing and scoalling is the occasion of much drunkennesse —1630 Dundonald Par. Rec. 304.
At the drinking of a pynt of ail, quhilk the said Adam Wasoun drank in scolling to the rest
