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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Rede lede, Re(i)d le(i)d, n. Also: read, redde and laid, lead; Rid lead. [Late ME redled (c1450), rede lede, e.m.E. red-lead, Lede n.¹] A red oxide of lead used as a pigment or paint, red lead. 1494 Edinb. Hammermen 7.
For vle & red leid to cullour the rod of irne & the candill beraris 1497 Halyb. 117. 1501 Treas. Acc. II 25.
xx pund of rede lede to lay Mons Messingeir and Talbart with 1504 Ib. 277.
For ane stane of rede lede to it [supra the gret portculis], xxxij s. Item, for thre choppinnis of oly lingeat to it, vj s. 1507 Ib. IV 90.
Caddes, verneis, rede lede 1513 Ib. 509.
For reid leid and oily linget for the coloring of the three greit irne gunnys 1534–5 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 128.
For the paynttyne of ane lyon [etc.] … In the first with red led and syne with wermione 1554–5 Edinb. Old Acc. I 140.
To lay the haill knok and half-hour all ouer with reid leid to keip thame fra rousting 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Eclogues x 27.
Minio …, reid leid 1587 Dundee B. Laws 143.
For laying ower the windowes with read lead 1617 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II 77.
Reid laid 1579, 1617 Despauter (1617).
Minium, redde lead