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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Graf, Graff(e, n. [Northern ME. graf (a 1300), graff (a 1400–50), OE. græf. Cf. Graif, Grave n. The form graff occurs in the modern dialects.] A grave or tomb. a1400 Leg. S. xxxvi. 737.
A man … Dalf vpe his graf be nichtirtale c1420 Wynt. v. 4034.
Syne in hys graff [C. graf] Cryst that tyme lay Ib. vi. 317.
The graff [C. graf] … Thai rypyd and the body soucht Ib. 1419.
In to this graffe heyr dede he lyis 1456 Hay I. 178/31.
He understude nocht that he suld pas be see, till sa fer a haly graf c1450-2 Howlat 471.
[He] Come to the haly graf a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 33.
O polisand graf and mydding cled with snaw 1490 Irland Mir. 146 b.
The haly body of Ihesu persit the graf and come throu it without any hole ore aperture 1513 Doug. v. ii. 86.
Of the holl graf law, A gret eddir slydand gan furth thraw 1555 Stirling B. Rec. I. 66.
With this restrictionis that incontinent quhen the graf is sattillit that incontinent the samyn laris be laid agane 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 89 b.
Me to be bureit amangisthe faythtfull in my forbearis graff 1617 Ib. XLIX. 337.
My father to lay ane throwch stane vpone my graf in the kirkyaird