A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1501
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Siching-bone, n. Also: sychyng-. (Only in Douglas; conjectured by Small to be a variant of ‘chicken-bone’, and by Bawcutt (STS ed.) to be the funny-bone, by analogy with mod. east-midl. Eng. dial. singing-bone (OED Singing-bone n.) in this sense.) —1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1724.
[Necromancers] Of Flanders peis maid mony precious stone, Ane greit laid sadill of a siching [L. sychyng] bone
