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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Grasil(l, Gra(i)sle, v. [Prob. imitative. Found only in Douglas.] a. intr. To make a harsh, grating noise. b. tr. To gnash (the teeth or tusks). —1513 Doug. i. ii. 60.
The takillis graslis [Sm. graislis], cabillis can fret and frays Ib. iii. x. 15.
A monstre horribyll, … Grassilland his teith, and rummysand full hie Ib. viii. iv. 103. Ib. x. xii. 59.
The bustuus swyne … Grasland hys tuskis with astern fyry eyn

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