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: 1600-1699
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Yound, n. (Prob. erron. for young (Ȝo(u)ng n.) offspring.) —16… Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 192.
Insects: This Aranea, which I have sent with its silk beside it whereof none ar to be found in our countrey but in this one place … The persons I employed to search for them … came into a large dark arched room, upon which here and there hung these little balls full of yound and the lady one spinning amongst or about them
