A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mismad(e, -maid, Mys-, ppl. a. [ME. mysmaad (1393), e.m.E. mis-, mysmade.] Badly made. a. Applied to a person or his appearance: Misshapen, deformed. b. Of metre, verse: Badly put together, illconstructed.a. a1400 Leg. S. ix. 217.
That Ethiope … That had the face gretly to lak, For it wes awful & mysmade [: had] c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 53.
Mismaid monstour Id. lx. 21.
Mismad mandragis —a1568 Bann. MS. 140 a/7. a1605 Montg. Flyt. 9 (H) (see Myting n.). —a1605 Montg. Flyt. 283 (T).
They musit at this mandrak mismaid lyk ane man Id. Ib. 288. c1600 Polwart Ib. 773.
Tairy taid, mismaidb. a1605 Montg. Flyt. 85 (T).
Ȝour meitter mismaid hes louslie lukkit
