We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more

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

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Tide, v.2 [17th c. Eng. tide (1627); Tid(e n.] tr. To experience a (good) tide. —1701 Brand Orkney & Shetl. 144.
Any wind … will take them over from Burwick to Caithness, if tided right, and the wind not in s. west

44126

dost