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: 1375-1590, 1650
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No mar(e, n., a. and adv. Also: mair(e, mayr. [Partly anglicized var. of Na mar(e.]Appar. common in the Leg. S. MS., where it is regularly written as one word.
No more, in various uses.(1) 1375 Barb. x. 697.
Bot than thai fled, thar was no mar a1400 Legends of the Saints ii. 440.
With a balance and nomar Thai banis he departit thare a1400 Ib. iii. 67.
Bot thai … mycht nomare do a1400 Ib. xxvi. 664. c1420 Ratis Raving 1121.
[A] child can no mare Bot lauch or gret for joy and care c1420 Wynt. vi. 2156.
I will no mare c1420 Ib. i. 416. 1456 Hay I. 66/4. 1456 Ib. 20/31.
I will speke now no mare of [etc.] c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 3192.
He allmost for bleding mycht no mare c1460 Ib. fol. 281 b.
I cannot say no mair 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 287/2. a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 1520.
Thow heris no mar of me a1500 Ib. 2055. c1568 Lauder Minor P. i. 654.
So that thair rests of this mateir no mair(2) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace viii. 860.
The ost … Comaundyt wachis, and no mayr noyis maid 1650 Brechin Presb. 23.
And gat no mair milk fra the kow(3) 1375 Barb. xiv. 298.
That thai durst nane abyde no mar a1400 Legends of the Saints i. 408.
I uill thole Petir nomare a1400 Ib. 534, xviii. 494, xxvi. 501, etc. c1420 Wynt. i. 1527. 1456 Hay II. 75/8. 1456 Ib. I. 230/2.
With grete … lamentacioun that he michtnomarebewith him c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 436, viii. 873, etc. a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 2632.
He sall heir ȝone ravinnis no maire 1513 Doug. iii. iv. 98.
No mair thame lykis assayng sik batell a1540 Freiris Berw. 256.
Ga fill the stowp, hald me no mair in pleid c1590 Fowler I. 239/11.(4) 1456 Hay II. 58/8. 1456 Ib. 142/24.
That will nocht falde no mare na rank stele
