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: 1499-1500
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Sparth, n. (? Erron. for Pard n. as suggested by Denton Fox, The Poems of Robert Henryson (1981) 240. A connection with ME sparth a battle-axe seems unlikely.) —a1500 Henr. Fab. 895.
The anteloip, the sparth furth couth speid, The peyntit pantheir, and the vnicorne