A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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(Sipe,) Syp(e, Sypp(e, Seep, v. [South-west. ME cypingg ppl. adj. (Trevisa), e.m.E. sype (1559), siping ppl. adj. (1642), OE sipian, cf. MDu. sīpen to drop, drip (Verwijs & Verdam), MLG sîpen to trickle, run, drip, seep, ooze (Schiller-Lübben). Also in the mod. dialect.] intr. Of liquid, etc.: To seep, ooze, leak, trickle through (a container, or the like). —1544–5 Edinb. Guild Ct. 20 Feb.
The relict of Mores Cowpland to clenge hir closit that is sypand 1566 Edinb. B. Rec. III 222.
That na maner of persoun hald thair closettis oppin sypeand and rynnand furth bot honestlie couerit 1599 Haddington B. Rec. (Robb) 6 April.
[That] the saids William & Robert sall mak to this burgh xxv firlotts … of fyne dry Danskin knappald, … & that thai sall all hald watter unrunon thru or syppend in ony part 1660 Edinb. B. Rec. IX 222.
That the cover of the worke … is not so closse seimd as neid wer the watter syping throw-abone 1665–7 Lauder Jrnl. 54.
He killed Kincairnes father by boyling the antimonian cup which ought only to seep in
