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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Pikk-,) Pick-, Pyck(e)ry, -(e)rie, n. Also: peik-. [Var. of Pikery n.] a. = Pik(e)ry n. 1. b. = Pik(e)ry n. 2. c. = Pik(e)ry n. 3.a. 1552 Old Dundee II. 364.
Accusit for pickrie 1601 Aberd. B. Rec. II. 217.
Oftymes convict in dyvers poyntis of pyckrie 1612 Orkney & Shetl. Ct. Bk. (ed.) 25. 1678 Mackenzie Laws & C. i. xx. 5 (1699) 109.
Pickry 1681 Kelso Baillie Ct. 79.
The accusatioune of thift and other pyckrie(b) 1660 Ure Rutherglen 74.
Pyckerie 1684 Fountainhall Decis. I. 263.
Pickery(c) 1606 Reg. Privy C. VII. 720.
For repressing of reffe, spoilyie and peikrie in thay nookis of the countreyb. 1629 Boyd Last B. 444.
His hands were full of pickeriec. 1616 Macritchie Gypsies 95.
Committing … avowed reiffis … as previe stouthis and pyckeris 1672 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. III. 509.
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