A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Spend, v.2 P.p. spentit. [Obscure. Also in later dial.] intr. a. Of a liquid: To spatter, splash on (something). b. p.p. Of silk: Dashed or shot with (something). —a. 1533 Bell. Livy I 106/12.
[She] draif the chariot oure hir faderis body, with sic violence that nocht alanerlie the blude of hir faderis body spendit [L. respersa] on hir face, bot als fylit baith hir clathis and the cheriot —b. 1542 Acts & Decr. I 141.
Rach cuppillis of siluer and silk colleris spentit with siluer price vj merk
