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

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1605-1606

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Skirfens, n. (Of uncertain origin and meaning, but possibly a variant of e.m.E. scorffynesse (1529), scuruinesse (1548) ‘the condition of being scurfy’, in fig. sense.) —1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 490.
He dow not get the skirfens and hardness of his heart taken away, that he may get a fill of Christ

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