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: 1500-1590
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(Sliding,) Slyding, -and, ppl. adj. [ME and e.m.E. slidyng (Chaucer).] transf. or fig. That moves, in the senses of Slid(e v., moving; unstable, inconstant; transitory. b. Slippery.(a) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 173/3.
Quhat is this lyfe bot … A slyding quheill us lent to seik remeid, A fre chois gevin to paradice or hell 1537 Lynd. Depl. Magd. 59.
Thy [sc. Fortune's] slyding gyftis maid hir no support, Hir hie lynage, nor riches intellible 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 82.
Thocht thow perswaid this threid slyding, Quhilk ay incressis … Think weill … This warld is nocht but transitoir 1568 Charteris Lyndesay Pref. Adhort. 55.
Reid heir ȝour lyfe at large … ay slyding as the sand a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 447/1.
The slyding tyme sa slilie slippis avey c1590 Fowler I 65/185.
Slipper hope and slyding trust(b) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) lxvi 5.
The slydand joy, the glaidnes schortb. 1584-9 Maxwall Commonpl. Bk. 28b.
Quhat is moir slyding than ane eill to catche? c1590 Fowler I 297/72.
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