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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Get, n.¹ Also: gett, geit(t, geat. [ME. get, gett (a 1400), f. Get v.]

1. Begetting, birth: generation. a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 186.
Johne is … Borne of woman thru get kindly Ib. 915.
Ȝet ware Herodis ma thane he, That be get caue til hyme succede c1420 Wynt. vi. 1946.
Set of hys get fell othir wayis, As to be gottyn kyndly, As other men ar generaly Ib. ix. 2816.
The tend persown he wes be get In lineale descens fra Sanct Margret a1500 Henr. Fab. 798 (B).
Off wrangus get cummys wrang successioun. This fox, bastard of generatioun, Off verrye kynd behufit to be fals 1562 Rec. Earld. Orkney 115.
Swa ar the ayris of the fyrst get cleyrlye owtred of thayre fathyre arff frome the ayris of the last get

2. Offspring; a child, a brat.(a) c1420 Wynt. vii. Prol. 39.
The … generatyowne That come be the lauchfull get Off Malcolme kyng and Saynt Margret Ib. 409. Ib. viii. 516.
The fyrst get in all kyn gre, Nerrare or ferrare quhethir it be c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 244.
Fals tratour, feyndis gett 1513 Doug. vi. v. 56.
Anchises get, heynd child, … Discend ondowtabill of the Goddis blude Ib. viii. i. 38; etc.
O gentill get, cummyn of hie goddis kyn 1545 Stirling B. Rec. I. 41.
You leid that said Annapill Graheme wes ane freris get 1567 Sat. P. viii. 11.
Blasphemus baird and beggeris get 1570 Ib. xxiv. 41.
Ganȝelons gettis, relict of Synonis seid 1638 Rothes Affairs Kirk 198.
The divels gett, Sonne of a witches breeding 1683 Peebles B. Rec. II. 110.
The counsell … fynes Mareon Bennett, … for calling John Thomsones bairn ‘witches get’(b) 1566 Inverness B. Rec. I. 138.
Elspet and Mareoun … callit hyr commond theiffis geit 1593 Elgin Rec. II. 29.
Scho hard Annapill Thomsone call Elspet Robertson … witchis geit Ib. 33.
Jhone Man … sclanderit Robert Varden … in calling of the said Richart theif and his barnis thevis geittis 1641 Aberd. B. Rec. III. 267.
William Walker … wes convict … for mispersoning his said maister, be calling him theiffes geit 1681 Banff Ann. I. 160.
Robert Duffus … called him scheipsteilleris geit(c) 16.. Reg. Panmure I. p. xxxiii.
The kinge … said to him ‘Marie newir ane preists geat’