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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475, 1565-1638
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Changeand, Chang(e)ing, ppl. a. Also: changand; chaung-, chainging. [ME. chaungande, chonginge (14th c.), e.m.E. chaung-, changing, f. Change v.]
1. Undergoing or causing change. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 5.
Be the ilk syng … ye may knaw The changing cours a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xlii. 122.
Sic tryall [is] lyik ane chainging fyire 1629 Mure Son. iii. 2.
To chaunge my neuer chaunging mynd
2. Of fabrics: Showing different colours in different aspects or lights. 1565 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 438.
viij elnis of changeing armosing taffeteis 1575 Edinburgh Testaments III. 363 b.
Armosie taffiteis changeand reid & ȝallow 1584 Ib. XIV. 130 b.
vj quarteris … of changeing reid & blak Spanȝe taffetie 1585 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 62.
Sex quarteris of changeing Florance taffetie 1602 Ib. MS. 97 b.
Changeand Spanis taffatie reid and ȝallow to be courtingis 1607 Edinburgh Testaments XLIII. 1.
Ane steik changand growgrane 1618 Ib. L. 163 b.
Ane steik chainging burret 1638 Elphinstone Mun. 194/2.
Doublet and breikes of blak satyne cut out vpoun changeing talffitie
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