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: 1601-1700+
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Uterin(e, adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. uteryne (1432-50), uterine (1555), OF uterin(e, late L. uterinus.] a. Having the same mother, but not the same father. b. Maternally related. —a. 1601 Brechin Testaments I 203b.
George Drynne brother vterine to the said Alexander Naichtie a1651 Calderwood II 403.
The Laird of Lochlevin, brother uterine to the regent 1681 Colvil Whig's Suppl. (1681) ii 35.
Both are in that degree of kin, As other brethren vterine a1714 Cromartie Corr. II 483.
His owin brother-vterin Duncan being of better hands than head —b. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x 503.
Whose vterine blood he is, and present brother … sprung from one mother
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