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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1672

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Subterraneous, adj. [e.m.E. subterraneous (1672), f. as Subterranean adj.] Underground. —1672 Sinclair Hydrostaticks 199.
The water … being withdrawn with subterraneous gutters (commonly called levels) that are digged, and wrought underground for drying the mines

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