A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nois, Noys, v. Also: noys(s)e, noyce. [ME. (Chaucer) and e.m.E. noise(n, noyse, e.m.E. also noyce, f. Nois,n.: cf. also OF. noisier, noiser, to make a noise, to quarrel, wrangle.] a. tr. To shout or sing (a certain piece of music). b. intr. To make a noise or outcry. c. passive. (To be) reported abroad, rumoured. d. ? active and intr. To pass abroad as a rumour. —a. a1500 Colk. Sow i. 327.
Sum noisit Napillis anoneb. 1579, 1617 Despauter (1617) 119.
Strido, to screik or noysec. 1561 Cal. Sc. P. I. 581.
[If for the purpose we hear] noysed 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 56.
And mony thingis that haue bene noysit of hir sen hir returne 1664 Lauderdale P. I. 196.
Noyced 1665 Laing MSS. I. 346.
The contest being noysed thorow the citie next dayd. a1578 Pitsc. I. 166/34.
Quhen thir tydingis … came abrode and noyssed throw the countrie
