A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1409-1436, 1513, 1570
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Alaw, adv. [Scotticizing of ME. alowe (13th c.), after Chaucerian use.] Low down. —c1409-1436 Kingis Quair xxxv. (as I kest myn eyne a-lawe); cliv. (by this ryuer syde alawe). 1513 Doug. ix. xiii. 28 (to withdraw towartis the ryveris syde alaw). 1570 Satirical Poems xxii. 13 (to fall and ly alaw).
