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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: 1499-1596

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Artik, Artic, a. Also: artike, artick, articte. [ME. artik (Chaucer), e.m.E. artick, arcticke, -ike, L. articus, arcticus.] Arctic. (Only in pole artik.)a1500 Henr. Test. Cr. 20 (the blastis fra pole artick). 1513 Doug. vi. i. 18 (the frosty poil artik). 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 48/33 (the pole artic, boreal, or septemtrional). c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6321 (polartike in the north). 1596 Dalr. I. 65/27 (neist the pol articte); II. 90/4 (betueine the Pol artik and the Pleiades).

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