A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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(Laven-,) Levayned, Leavened, Leavined, p.p. and ppl. a. [ME. levaynd (c 1400), y-lavenyt (1422), e.m.E. levende, leavened.] Leavened (bread). —1456 Hay II. 122/33.
[Eat] divers maneris of metis … with gude brede sum part levayned and wele bakyn 1637 Dysart Rec. 73.
Weill leavened white bread of fourteine uncis wecht for twelf pennys 1665 Glasg. B. Rec. III. 64.
The statut anent the wheit breid … The whoill baxters to baik sufficient leavined breid
