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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: 1622-1643

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(Bute-,) Buit-hois, n. [e.m.E. boothose (1588).] An overstocking. —1622 Edinburgh Testaments LI. 256.
Ane hundretht buithois 1624 Ib. LII. 286 b.
Tuelfscoir buithois at x s. the paire 1636 Ib. LVIII. 18.
Fowr pair of lynning buithois and thrie pair of buithois topps 1643 Ib. LX. 239.
Ane dossane of buthois

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