A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Voyd(e, n. Also: voyid, void(e, wyd, woid. [Voyd(e adj.] An empty space, a gap or hole, esp. in a wall or between buildings; a space left empty for some reason. b. In heraldry: A figure empty of the colour of the outline. Cf. Voyd(e adj. 7.(a) 1525–6 Aberd. B. Rec. I 114.
To cloise the tovnn and bred the portis … and oupmak all wydis and waistis, to gar grant thair artailȝere and gunnaris to the same(b) 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 226.
To caus … fill vp the voyde and hoillis howkit vnder the said wall 1589 Edinb. B. Rec. V 3.
Ane hingand stair … under the quhilk stair thair is ane voyde 1616 Aberd. B. Rec. II 341.
The said Thomas … sall build ane voyd … for letting doun the paissis frome the knock 1622 D. Lindesey Heavenly Chariot 40.
The heade of some dead corpse having in the … outmost part of it, a little voyde 1645–6 J. Hope Diary (1958) 151.
The forme of makeing of charcoall … they sett 3 stickes in triangle flatt upon the ground with halfe a foot of voyde in the midle 1675 Edinb. B. Rec. X 427.
In which pedestule he is to leave ane voyd for ane door 1676 Edinb. B. Rec. X 267.
The dean of gild … to visit the voyd in the fish mercat and sie give the saids bounds might be inclosed for the use of the fish mercat(c) 1602 Edinb. B. Rec. V 374.
Payit to the wricht for cutting the … plankis to mak the grund of the mel merkett … Payit for on putting of daillis upoun the oppin voyid of the merkett(d) 1610 Glasgow Trades House 28 (see Outstrikeing vbl. n.1). 1686 Cramond Kirk S. II 29 Aug.
That Barntoun as patron, haveing a right to that voide as being the queir [etc.] 1687 S. Leith Rec. 156/1.
The first seatt is … lyke a pew quherin is a void for going to the pulpitb. a1586 Lindsay MS 42b.
Quhat is the propir name of buyrly in armes siluer and azure and gif it cumis in that maner it is blasonit at ane woid he beiris burell and gif it cumis in ony vther colour it man be nemit, sua of war … The rycht colour of war in armis is silver and azure and that is blasonit at ane woid
