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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Se-flude, n. Also: see-, sey-, sea-, sie- and -flud, -fluid, -floud, -flood. [ME sæ-flode (Layamon), se-flod (a1275), se-flude (c1440), OE sǽ-flód.] The sea as ebbing and flowing, the tidal waters of the sea. Also pl.c1500-c1512 Dunb. Asl. MS II 89/17.
Quhill the se flude [M. greit se, B. greik sie] fillis & ebbis 1513 Doug. iii x 25.
Vp weltris watir of the salt sey flude 1577 Prot. Bk. J. Scott 37b.
And fra Putkyn burn langis to the sie floud 1587 Burntisland B. Ct. 10 Aug.
The said … infeftment quhilk extendit to the seaflud at the sowth 1589 Burntisland B. Ct. 15 Aug.
Perteninge to the said vmquhill Johine Grahame at the east the see-flud at the wast 1590 Welwod 79.
As for the criminalls of bludstouth, raiff &c. done within the sea-flud the admiral … is judge propir and ordinair thairto 1590 Crim. Trials I ii 202.
See flude 1591 Reg. Great S. 651/1.
Terras infra lie sey-flud 1610 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 349.
Ilk ane of thame to be tane to the peir and schoir of Leith within the sie fluid and mark thairof 1641 Binns P. (SRS) 38.
All and haill the coillis and coilheuchis … to be wune, als weill within as without the sea fluid foranent the saidis landis of Stakis 1698 Retours Inq. Spec. Fife (1399).
Cum salinis ædificatis infra fluxum maris lie seaflood 16.. Admir. Ct. Form 61 (see Se-farand ppl. adj. c (b)).pl. 1513 Doug. iv v 146.
Mercur … Vnto the sey fludis [L. ad undas] maid hys discens 1513 Doug. v xiii 76.
Saturnus … That of the deip see fludis [L. maris … alti] dantar is
