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

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1550, 1612-1617

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Undrest, ppl. adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. vndressid (1445), vndressed (1530); Dressit ppl. adj.] a. Not settled or cleared up. b. Not put in order or finished off. —a. c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1492.
Sone efter that crueltie, The knicht was put to libertie … Sa wes his matter left vndrest
b. 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII 123b.
Nyne gluff speiris, lx vndrest gluf speir schafts
1617 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs III 44.
The samyne [sc. fish] being in the hands of the merchands undrest or saltet

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