A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1475, 1567-1568
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No kin, kyn, a. [Late ME. (14–15th c.) no kyn(ne: cf. Nakin a.] No kind of, not any. —(1) a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 127. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2489.
That he of it had no-kyn wit a1568 Bannatyne MS 54 a/59.
Of no kin pane of hell a1568 Ib. 72 a/7.
Be nevir crabbit for nokin thing —(2) c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 425.
Of no-kyn wyse c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 901.
Be no kyn meyn 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis (1621) 73.
In no kin wyse
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