A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1618, 1700+
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Undermost, Unermaste, adj. [e.m.E. vndermost (1555).] That occupies the lowest or innermost position. —(a) 1618 Edinburgh Testaments L 117.
Scho … leues to Johne Burne … the vndermost fedder bed that lyis wnder hir selff 1701 Fam. Rose 389.
3 ells of flannell … for an undermost coate —(b) 1513 Doug. Comm. i v 2.
Jupiter the planete, quhilk is secund in ordour, and vnermaste nyxt Saturn