A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1570
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Alongest, prep. [Late ME. and e.m.E. alongest, later alongst; in Sc. both forms are common as prep. and adv. after 1660.] Along. —1570 Leslie 298 (alongest the coist of Ingland).