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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1460-1604
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Upmak, v. Also: oupmak. P.p. up-, wpmaid. [Mak v. 39.] tr.
1. a. To build, construct; to build up, make good, repair. = Mak v. 39 a, b. b. To make good, compensate for (damage or injury or the thing damaged or injured). = Mak v. 39 c.a. 1460 Fam. Rose 135.
To fund, big, ande vpmak a toure of fens, with barmkin ande bataling 1498 Aberd. B. Rec. I 66.
[That] … the port of the Gallogate be vpmaid and closit with lokis and keis 1513 Aberd. B. Rec. I 88.
That ale fremen … sale byg and vpmak thar fossis and bastulȝy [pr. -ry] in xvj fute in lyngtht at the Sandenes 1584 Inverness Rec. I 295.
And the forsaid maisteris of wark craiff the forsaidis awnaris to mend, beit, and vpmak thair awin warkis 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 10.
The saidis tennentis … to upmak thair saidis dykis to be lawfull as said is(b) 1507 Aberd. B. Rec. I 77.
[He] sale … big, oupmak … and complet the xxxiiij stallis in thar queir 1526 Aberd. B. Rec. I 114.
To cloise the tovnn, and bred the portis of the same, and oupmak all wydis and waistisb. c1460 Regimine Principum 178 (Maitl.).
Twa partiis ar of iustice speciall The ane is dome … The vther is to vpmak the scaythis hale … Without delay to mak the sythment 1542 Prestwick B. Rec. 58.
The skaith at has sustenyt to be wpmaid for falt of his seruice 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 32.
To pay … x li. and to upmak the slachter of the yow to the awner 1602 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 32.
David Houllis bairnis is tryit to have brokin the four legis of … [ane] yow … thay ar decernit to … upmak the yow to the awner 1604 Shetland Sheriff Ct. (ed.) 133.
Decernit … to upmak the valour … of the said meir … to the awner be the sycht of the fold and honest nychbouris
2. To increase, augment (the value of an object) (to a particular level).1485 Acts II 172/1.
That al goldsmythis werk be markit with his avn mark … & the mark of the toun of the finace of xj d. fyne. And quhar thar is fundin ony sic werk within the said finace the werk to be brokin the werkman to vpmak the avale to the finace forsaid
