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: 1399-1400, 1546-1571
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(Levin,) Lewine, -yn(e, num. (and a.) [Aphetic for Alevin, Ellevin, and cf. also Ane-levin.] Eleven. b. adj. Put for: eleventh. —a1400 Legends of the Saints vii. 477.
Josaphus … Lewyne Jowis of his consent Tuk with him a1400 Ib. xii. 311.
[Peter] wald thai vare twelfe ewyn, & nocht to be in nowmyre lewyne 1546 Edinb. Hammermen 168 b.
To put in the box … fourtene libis lewyne [s.] viij d. 1571 Black Bk. Taymouth 137.
The castal tayn the fyrst day of Apryill the yer of God ane m vc sexte lewyn yerisb. a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 429.
The twelfe greis of vertuse … The lewine is: that cheryte To frend & fa euire haf we
