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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cude, Cuid(e, n.¹ Also: cud, cwde, coode. [ME. code (c 1400), northern cud, of obscure origin.] A chrism-cloth. Also attrib. with clath. a1400 Leg. S. xl. 11.
The cud-clath, that he thare laucht, He kepit clene at his macht c1450-2 Howlat 978.
Thy cude, thy claithis, nor thi cost, cummis nocht of thé 1516 State P. (Reg. H.) No. 22.
A cude of sewet werk 1500 Treas. Acc. II. 40.
For ane elne quhit tartir to be ane cude to hir barne, … for browding of the saimyn cude 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2073 (B).
I pray to the rude, That Martyne Luter [etc.] … Had bene smord in thair cwde (1547) Knox I. 197.
Candill, cuide (except it be to keap the barne from cald), … and the rest of the Papisticall inventions 1551 Hamilton Cat. 192.
Last of al the barne that is baptizit is cled with ane quhite lynning claith callit ane cude 1560 Rolland Seven S. 2728.
Scho … cryit aloude ‘that euer I was borne, Into my cude sen I had bene forlorne’ 1562-3 Winȝet I. 83/13.
The baptizit to be coverit with a quhite clayth, called the cuid 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 103.
Sua the prince being convoyit [to baptisin], … the cude [was borne] be the lord Sympill a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xvi. 33.
In to my cude Bereiving me my breath 1604 Craig i. 22.
The heauins of thé, great Prince, hade care in to thy coode