A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Guld, n. Also: gulde, guild(e. [e.m.E. goulde, goold, ME. goolde, gold(e, OE. golde.] The corn marigold. Also attrib. with law.(a) 14.. Acts I. 386/2.
Giff thi malar puttis guld in thi land, and will nocht deliuer it and clenge it, he aw to be punyst Ib. 387/2.
Gif thi natiff man or thi bonde haf fylit thi land with guld, for ilk plant of it he sall gif to thé … a mutone 1473 Reg. Cupar A. I. 171.
Tha sal do thar diligens … to wyn the land fra guld with wedying 1503 Ib. 256.
Thai sal keip thair land fra guld wnder payn of guld law 1504 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. II. 95.
Asserens ipsam peciam terre … nunquam prius fuisse seminatam aut infectam menulaca, wlgariter le gulde 1521 Misc. Spald. C. V. 293.
Thai sall keip gud nighburhed, and the lainds fra guld 1570 Sat. P. xiii. 103.
For thift and murther, reif and oppressiounis, With guldis and rukis blasit equallie, Is the auld armes of the Hammiltounis 1597 Skene Verb. S. s.v. Maneleta.
The teinnent sufferand the guld to grow amangst his cornes, payis ane wedder … to his maister(b) 1562-3 Winȝet II. 59/21.
God forbid … that … of the graiwis of cannal and balme … spring wp guild and humlokis 1609 Skene Reg. Maj. Table 81.
Guilde (quhilk is ane pernicious herbe, or rather alne wide) 1622-6 Bisset I. 43/25.
He that sufferris his land to be fyled with guild [etc.]
