A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1590
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(Wawand,) Wavand, Waiffand, Wavinge, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. wauynge (1552).] a. Moving to and fro. b. fig.Rolling, surging in the manner of a wave. —a. 1513 Doug. iv iv 37.
Hys wavand [Ruddim. waiffand] haris, sum tyme, doyng doun thryng With a soft garland of lawrer —b. c1590 Fowler I 345/27.
A stormy cloude eclipsed hathe the soone … My barke … Is broken on the rocke of falce disdaine The floodes of woe … The wavinge sighs, the teares … Hathe drownde the hope [etc.]
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