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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1499, 1554-1612, 1672
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Alom, Allom, Allum, n. Also: alome, allome, allowme, allume; allame. See also Alme. [ME. alom, alum (c 1350), e.m.E. allom(e, allum(e, OF. alum, L. alūmen.] Alum.14.. Acts I. 305/2 (peper, comyn, alom); 14.. Ib. (a poket of alom). 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 31/1 (j cark of alum). 1499 Halyb. 181 (a cark of allom). 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. 201 (saip, steill, allum). 1569 Edinburgh Testaments I. 337 (fifte four stane allowme). 1578 Ib. VI. 111 (ten pund of allame). 1612 Bk. Rates 287 (allome rough). 1672 Acts VIII. App. 23/2 (makeinge of alome); 1695 Ib. IX. 420/1 (allom).attrib. 1568 Edinburgh Testaments I. 119 b.
Ane puncheoun of alome bark
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