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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Tumb(e, Towm(e, n. Also: twmb, tomb(e, toumbe, towmb(e, toume, tom(e, toim. [ME and e.m.E. tumbe (Layamon), toumbe (c1290), tumb (Cursor M.), tombe (1474), tomb (1690), OF tombe, late L. tumba.] a. A place of burial, freq. within a church. b. A monument erected, chiefly over a grave, to preserve someone's memory; a tombstone.a., b. 1375 Barb. xx 303.
Thai haiff … him solemply erdyt syne In a fayr tumb [C. towme, H. tombe] in-till the quer c1420 Wynt. viii 3104.
Thus lyand ar thai byschapys thre On the north halff off the Hey Kyrk In twmbys [C. tombis], that thame-selff gert wyrk c1420 Wynt. viii 2209 (C).
Towmbis 1456 Hay I 64/20.
Thai … gert mak a toumbe apon a hye pillare of marbre … and set thare abune ane ymage of him [sc. Caesar] curiously corvin in marbre … the quhilk is of vi score of fut of hicht abune the erde a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 603.
He maid ane tomb of merbell gray, And wrait hir name and superscriptioun, And laid it on hir graue 1511 Treas. Acc. IV 195.
Ane mort claitht to ly one King James the Secundis tumbe in Halirudhouse 1533 Boece 82b.
Beside his towmbe in honorabill remembrance of his name erecting mony square throwchis gravyn and dressit be masonry a1538 Abell xvia.
[King Arthur] wes translatit worschipfullie and layit in ane tomb of merbill stone 1570 6th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 646/1.
The … mesounis sall … set vp ane tvmbe of stane, abone the buriall place … within the kirk … Quhilk tumb sall haue ane volt in vnder the eird … and the rest of the tumbe to ryis conforme to the patroun and draucht quhilk he hes 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. 217.
He was layed in ane new tumbe of a heuwin staine ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1961) 62.
Into this sanctuarie [sc. in Iona] thair is three tombs of stane formit like little chapellis, with ane braid gray marble or quhin stane in the gavill of ilk ane of the tombs 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. x.
Tombes that … were after the counterfoote of Josephs arke 1612 S. Leith Rec. 10/1.
The Sessioune … granted him libertie to bige ane tombe the breid of four kists of the wall … to be ane heritable buriall place to him and his prosteritie 1649 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 110.
Any tombes or lair stanes to ly wpone thair graves 1682 E. Loth. Antiq. Soc. II 26.
That noble … person was placed in his tumb next to his father's bodie(b) 1375 Barb. xx 589 (C).
His sone gert … Of alabast … Ordane a towme full richly, As it behufit till swa worthy a1400 Leg. S. xvii 255.
At quhais towme eftyr hyr decese Sa mony merwalis done vas, That the kynge of France, … Hyre sepulture come for to se a1400 Leg. S. xli 319.
Tom 1504 Treas. Acc. II 266.
To the kingis offerand in the stok at Sanct Duthois towm, xiiij s. 1513 Doug. vi xv 70.
His new maid sepultur or tovme [Sm. toim] c1590 Fowler I 249/2.
My winding scheits my steidfast love sal end, My heid sal tend vnto his buriall toume 1600 Reg. Deeds (SRO) RD.1/75 456b.
Provyding alwayis that incaice the said Magnus mak defectioun in his honest dewtie and behaviour to me … as becumis ane loveing sone in homage, humilitie and reverence towardis his fatheris tome in all tymes cuming
c. Erron. for tub.1540 Lynd. Sat. 2632 (Ch.).
Diogenes … the warld refusit, And in ane tumbe him self inclusit And leifit on herbs and water cauld
