A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1375-1420, 1500-1513
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Balme, Bawme, v. Also: bawlm-. [ME. balme, bawme (c 1300), f. the noun.] tr. To embalm; to anoint.1375 Barb. xx. 286 (he debowalit wes and bawlmyt [E. bawmyt] syne). c1420 Wynt. viii. 1480 (with spycery that ilke hart scho bawmyd). c1500-c1512 Dunb. xlviii. 20 (flouris balmit in dew). 1513 Doug. iii. viii. 10 (we dyd bawme and beyk our bodeys); iv. iv. 39 (hys wavand haris [he] gan balmyng and enoynt).
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