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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lintseid, n. Also: lynt-, lient- and -seed(e, -side, -seyd, -sead. [e.m.E. lynt-, lintseede (1599), f. Lint n.: cf. Linseid. Written variously as one word or as two.]

1. The seed of flax (as intended to be sown). = Linget n. 1. 1530 Wigtown B. Ct. 234 b.
Vrangus haldyne … of a quarter of lynt seyd 1600 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 204.
The causualteis of the lynt, lyntseid and salt 1662 Soc. Ant. XXII. 220.
My lint seed … is sown in an drownit holl in Kilduff 1664 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 641.
[He has no goods on board] except … certan hogsheids of lint seid 1674 Kirkcudbr. B. Rec. MS. 25 March.
Thrie pundis four shilling Scots for ait and lintseed 1674 Corshill Baron Ct. 121.
Lint seede 1698 Lanark B. Rec. 262.
Ilk peck lintside or hempside … 4 d.

2. Attrib. a. Lintseed-boll, = lint-boll, Boll n.² 2 and Lint n. 4 a. b. = Linseid n., Linget n. 2. a1658 Durham Christ Crucified (1686) 21/2.
My heart clecked as a lintseed-boll to Christ 1713 Household Bk. Gr. Baillie 246.
For a mutchkin lientsead oyl 16 ds. 2 s … for a chopine lintsead oyl 14 ds.