A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1375, 1513
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Wod(d)y, Wodé, adj. [ME and e.m.E. wodi (Wyclif), woddy (1545).] Wooded. The Edinburgh MS variant of Barb. may rather belong in Wod(e n. 4 b. —1375 Barb. iv 492 (C).
In a woddy [E. wode] glen 1513 Doug. iii iv 116.
The woddy [Ruddim. wody] ile Ȝacynth, with mony tre
