A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1513-1585
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Flowing, -yng, vbl. n. Also: flouyng. [ME. flowing, -ynge (a 1340), ONhb. flouing.] The act of flowing. (lit. and fig.). —1456 Hay I. 76/7.
The fillyng and flowing of the see 1513 Doug. iii. vi. 83.
This cost … Bedyit with flowyng of our seys flude 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 40/2.
Than I sat doune to see the flouyng of the fame 1585 James VI Ess. 54.
They obseruit not flowing [in verse]
