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: 1499-1599
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Besene, Besein, p.p. and a. Also: beseine, beseyn(e. [ME. besene, besein, etc., p.p. of be-se ‘besee’, see to, provide, etc.] Furnished, arrayed, dressed; equipped. (See also Wele besene.)Chiefly in poetry as a rhyme-word.a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 416.
Quhair is thy chalmer wantounlie besene? c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 250.
In quhite and rede was all the felde besene c1500-c1512 Id. xlviii. 46.
Full hestely besene In serk and mantill 1513 Doug. iii. ix. 7.
I ne saw … sa wrachitly beseyn a wy a1540 Freiris Berw. 20 (M).
The castell … most fair, most gudlie, and all thair best be-sene 15.. Clariodus i. 669.
Fair Mandonet was lustilie beseine, In clothing as effeirit to ane queine 1553 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 150.
Sua that thay … ar reknit to be … best besene in Scripturis
