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Quotation dates: 1474-1646
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Dosane, n. Also: dosan, dossan(e, dozane; dosand, dossand; dossin, doissin, -ene. [ME. dosayn(e, dosain, dosein, OF. dosaine, dozeine. Cf. Dusane.] A dozen.(a) 1474 Acts Lords Auditors 31/1.
A grete dosane of pewder weschel 1482 Edinb. Chart. 168.
Of smallare geistis, iiij d of the dosane 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II. 25.
For dighting of xv dosane of mertrik skynnys to the Kingis gret goune 1505 Ib. III. 142.
For viij dosan of rauchteris to be coyis in the schip 1527 Edinb. B. Rec. I. 232.
The gaitt … to be dicht and clengeit … with a dosane of seruands 1555–6 Ib. II. 321.
For twa dozane pend [stones] 1578 Edinburgh Testaments VI. 111.
Ane half dosane of doubill catechiss bukis 1584 Ib. XIV. 106 b.
Ane dosane of bulgettis. … Item mair tua dosane of lokkis 1608 Mun. Univ. Glasg. III. 557.
Twa dosane of communion breid 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 1 b.
Ane dosane of kodwairis and kodis(b) 1543 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 189.
iij dossand of cumfeythis 1545 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 596.
Payand … vij dosand of pultrie 1558 Protocol Book of Gilbert Grote 34.
Ane dosand of blecheit lynnyng claytht 1573 Satirical Poems xxxix. 105.
Continewand this [siege] ane dosand of dayis or mair 1581 Acts III. 216/2.
Euerie dosand of clayth [sall contene] twelf ellis allanerlie(c) 1585 Edinburgh Testaments XV. 26 b.
Tua dossane of A.B.C. broddis 1597 Ib. XXX. 162.
Ten dossane of blak geit buttounes; … sax dossane meikill glas buttounes [etc.] 1643 Ib. LX. 236.
Twa dossane and nyn buffell sword beltis 1646 Baillie II. 411.
I have gotten but a dossan of sheets of my Anabaptisme from the presse(d) c 1535 Liber Dryburgh 337.
v doissene powltre 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 649/1.
To the kitching fywe dossin of powter plaittis 1599 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 55.
Ilk doissin buirdis loissit, laidnit, or sauld at thair herbere, aucht peneis 1629 Master of Works Accounts XXIV. 3.
Ane dossin small timber of aik to be scafalling
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