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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1527-1580, 1645-1665
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Undicht, ppl. adj. Also: undycht, -dight, wndicht, ondicht, undighted. [e.m.E. undight (1555); Dicht ppl. adj.]
1. Of cloth, flax, skins, etc.: Not cleaned or dressed.(a) 1527 Wigtown B. Ct. 207b.
The vrangus haldyne fra hym of xxiiii ellis of quhyt clath vndycht 1546 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS XXI 53.
xxiiij stane vndycht lynt 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I 27b.
Sevin hundreth … vndicht blak cattis [sc. skins] 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III 395.
Twa pund of hekelit lint & half ane thraif of vndicht lint a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 14.
Lana rudis, undight [Jam. undighted] wool(b) 1645 Edinburgh Testaments LXI 105.
Four staine of ondicht lint
2. Of grain: Unwinnowed. 1573–4 Reg. Privy C. II 341.
James Tempiltoun messinger … past and apprehendit xvi bollis of beir or thairby undicht in the said Archibaldis barne 1665 Edinburgh Testaments LXXII 6b.
Of wndicht beir in the barne the number of l bollis
3. Of a blade: Not furbished or polished. 1580 Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 295.
Suord blaids undicht
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