A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unleipit, ppl. adj. (Conjectured by OED (s.v. Unleeped ppl. adj.) to mean ‘uncooked, raw’, f. Lepe v.2 ‘to boil slightly’; and by Earl F. Guy, in ‘Some Comic and Burlesque Poems in Two Sixteenth Century Scottish Manuscript Anthologies’ (Edinburgh Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1952) 233, as meaning ‘unshorn’ or ‘still attached to an animal’. Cf. OED Lip v.2 ‘To cut off the head of an animal … to shear (a sheep)'.) —a1568 Gyre-carling 4.
Thair dwelt ane grit gyre carling in awld Betokis bour That levit vpoun Christiane menis flesche and rewth heidis vnleipit
