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: 1606
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Soane, v. (Of uncertain origin and meaning, but defined in Donaldson's Suppl. to Jam. as ‘to sink down, settle down, fall into place and position, like a hewn stone in a building’. Cf. Dan. segne to settle down, sink down gradually.) —1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xv.
So must we … be occupyed … in squairing our selues as the Lords lyuely stones: that being founded on all sides, we may soane aright in the Lords islare [= ashlar] work, the which is our edification
