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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1513

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Scug(g, Skug(g, v. Also: scoug, skowg. [f. Scug(g,n.] tr. To make (a place) dark with shadow. Only in Doug.1513 Doug. vii i 24.
The flude, That dern about skuggyt [Sm. scuggit] with bewis stude
1513 Doug. viii vi 90.
Ȝon schaw … That skowgit [Sm. scougit, Ruddim. skuggit] is with mony buskis crop
1513 Doug. ix iii 23.
Me lykyt thar [sc. in a fir wood] to walk oftsys, With pikky treis blak skuggit abowt

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