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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1500, 1552-1623
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Sorit, Soirit, adj. Also: soired, sord, soird, -t, soirdy. [Late ME and north. e.m.E. sorede, sorde (1420), sored (1545), sowerde (1587), also in the later dial.; Sore adj.]
1. = Sore adj. 1.(1) 1552 Glasgow Test. I 94.
vi merkis money … for ane sorit meir 1576 Edinburgh Testaments V 35b.
Ane sorit haiknay hors(b) 1614 Criminal Trials III 265.
Ane gray ambland meir, with ane littill soired meir 1623 Edinburgh Testaments LII 117.
Tua staigis viz. ane soirit and ane vther blak bason(c) 1582 Edinburgh Testaments X 350b.
Ane soirt hors … Ane soird meir 1605 Edinburgh Testaments XL 289.
Ane gray cursour … ane soird gray(d) 1610 Criminal Trials III 98.
The steilling of … ane little soirdy staig(2) 1557 Criminal Trials I i 400.
[A] sorit balsonit horse 1573 Breadalbane Ct. Bk. 1.
For the wrangus selling … of ane sorit beld meir 1614 Criminal Trials III 265.
Ane soird bassoned meir
2. = Sore adj. 2.a1500 Tale of the Colkelbie Sow i 170.
The suddill sow and the sord Reid kit that oft rord
