A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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(Wharein,) Whairin, Wherein, rel. adv. [Var. of Quhar(e)in rel. adv.] a. = Quhar(e)in rel. adv. B 1 a and Quherein rel. adv. (1). b. = Quhar(e)in rel. adv. B 2 and Quherein rel. adv. (1). —a. 15.. Clar. iii 5.
Ane schipe … Whairin war marchandis out of Sarisinis land —(b) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 1065 (C).
Where-in 1618 Acts IV 588/2.
To convein … within the heade bourgh of the same shyre wherein they are magistrates —b. 1558-66 Knox II 432.
Ye lyttill regaird the estait whairin thay stand —(b) a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 378.
Man, whose breath is in his nostril … wherein is he to be accounted of?
