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: 1513-1533
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Unirkit, Onyrkyt, p.p. [Irkit ppl. adj.] a. Untired, not weary. b. quasi-adv. Untiringly. —a. 1533 Bell. Livy II 99/13.
Quintius & his horsmen … come … fra the montanis fresche and vnirkit [L. recentissimum] of lauboure —b. 1513 Doug. xiii xi 35.
Thow knawys quhou strangly the mychty Ene And the Eneadanys all of hys menȝe Ithandly and onyrkyt [Ruddim. vnirkit] luffyt haue I
