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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1558-1617
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Falteis, adj. Also: faulteis. [Later form of Fautice adj.] Faulty, defective. — 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 147.
Ȝit every man … suld not cast doun the place quhilk he thynkis falteis at his plesour 1581 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 202.
Vnderstanding the toune wallis to be holkit, ruinous, and falteis in dyuers places 1587 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 288.
To Paull Masone … to put ane brydill in to hald wp the end of the geist … that was fateis [sic] 1598 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 224.
[The council] fynds the ruif of thair hie kirk … to be verray falteis 1614 Ib. VI. 113.
To repair the faulteis plaices in the kirk wall 1617 Ib. 165.
To sie ... all manis wark of the said craft ... and quhair it beis fund falteis to forbid the samine to be sauld under the paine of escheit sa oft as it salbe fund falteis
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