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: 1400, 1500-1512
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Slicht-full, Slyghtfull, adj. [ME slyhtful (1380), e.m.E. sleightful (1613-6); Slicht n.] = Slicht adj.2 —c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1256 (D).
His [sc. Ulysses'] slichtfull [C. slyghtfull] & sle sermoun c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 119/7.
The sweit abayd, the slichtfull trane
