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: 1399-1400, 1512, 1569-1647
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Fornace, Fornes, n. [e.m.E. fornace, ME. fornays(e, -neys(e, forneis (c 1290), OF. fornais, -naise, L. fornax. Cf. Furnas n.] A furnace.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii. 574.
For-thi gert he set a caldron In fornace 1512 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 374.
The servandis that kepis the fornace 1575 Inverness B. Rec. I. 244.
Ane meit buyrd wyth brander and fornes a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxx. 36.
Sa in afflichsioun as a fornace fyir We ar preparde be pruif to the impyir 1594 Hume Tr. Consc. ix. 91.
The gold … purified in the fornace 1611 Mure Misc. P. iv. 10.
Sche … the fornace feeds, quhair my puir hert doth burne 1647 Hope Diary 140.
The … building of the fornaces [for glassmaking]
