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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Gast, n.3 [f. e.m.E. gast, ME. gaste (14th c.), to frighten.] In a gast, in a fright. — 1667 Argyll Lett. to Lauderdale (Laing MSS.).
The people, who are all of them in a gast as if it were resolved to take all they have a 1684 Law Mem. (1818) 220 (J).
The woman in a gast, and pale as death, comes [etc.]
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