A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1513, 1567-1628
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Landles, a. [e.m.E. landlesse (1540–1), OE. landléas.] Landless, without lands. —1513 Doug. viii. Prol. 84.
Lordis ar left landles be onleill lawys a1568 Bannatyne MS 147 a/14.
A woman lowpar landles … sall nevir … do weill a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 345.
Better have a man landles nor land manles 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. iii. 3.
To defraude the most landles liuer [of burial] were a shamelesse sacriledge
