A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sil(e, v.3 [ME syle (14th c.), sile (Lydgate). Prob. Scand., cf. Norw., Sw. dial. sila to flow.] intr. Of the sun: To go down. —a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 524.
The seymly sone silit to the rest