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: 1399-1400, 1533, 1584-1599
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Swamp(e, adj. [e.m.E. swampe (1615).] Thin, lithe. —a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii 1597.
Sume [men] throu ydropesy sa gret Swolne that thai ma ete no mete, Are mad swampe thar 1533 Boece 97.
Romanis of all vtheris ar maist expert in were, agill and swamp in thare persoun to clym ȝoure montanis [L. corpore agiles ad inaccessa loca superanda] a1585 Polwart Flyt. 776 (T).
Swamp Sandie 1599 Cal. Sc. P. XIII 573.
[An old man … jested … that the Chancellor was fat and the President] swampe [and fit to travel]
