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Thret(t)y, Thret(t)ie, Thert(t)y, num. Also: thret(t)ye, thretti, thrette, threthi, threittie, thrity, thritie, thrytie, thritti(e, thrytty, thratty(e, thrat(t)ie, throttie, therti(e, therttie, therritie, thirtie, tretty, tratty(e. [ME and e.m.E. þrittiȝ (Orm), þritti (Layamon), þretty, thirtti, thritti, þritty (all Cursor M.), thretty (c1425), threty (Caxton), thirty (Tindale), OE þritiᵹ, ON þrítugr.]

A. adj. 1. The cardinal number thirty, qualifying a noun.(a) a1400 Leg. S. v 225.
A ȝounge man … that before thane Thretty dais had veddit bene
c1420 Ratis R. 1155.
Quhen thretty ȝer ar passit by, Than cum thai to perfeccione
1437 Reg. Dunferm. 285.
And that it be thretti fut brad
1442 Aberd. B. Rec. I 8.
That this burgh sal be wachit ilke nyght with thretty men at the breste, als lang tyme as the cuntreth is in trubble
a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 508.
Judas forthoucht, and restorit agane The thretty pennyis
1513 Doug. iii vi 72.
A gret sow ferryit of grysis thretty hed
c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke iii 23.
Threttj
1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 15.
The rectour most be ane … doctor or bachelar in the hyear faculteis [etc.] … of age abuve thretty ȝeris
c1575 Balfour Pract. 272.
The schiref-officiar or serjand sall have for his fie ane colpindach, or threttie penies, for ilk ane condampnit in ane unlaw
1620 Edinb. Test. L 322b.
Tua aquavitie potis price of baith threttie pundis
1663 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 207.
Ilk burges of gild thrie scor punds, ilk tradsman thretie punds, and ilk person of the meiner sort ten punds
(b) 1312 Facs. Nat. MSS II xix.
Vsque ad terminum triginta [glossed thritti] annorum
1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 299.
Thair wes many of thrittie men mylnes that grand quheit, malt and aittis
1649 Kelso Glovers 10.
Under the paine of thrytie pound
1665 Forbes Baron Ct. 256.
The sowme of thritie poundes Scottis
(c) 1540 (c1670) Fraser Polichron. 130.
His thratty penny land of Midganies lyand within the Isle of Sky
1569 Inverness Rec. I 178.
The sowme of thrattye bollis gude and sufficient eakin bark
1572 Inverness Rec. I 213.
Ane coffyr wyth xij thrattye schilling peces thairin
1632 Cullen B. Ct. 2 March.
Thrattie
(d) 1549 Compl. 98/4.
The Samnetis, quhilkis hed maid mortal veyr thertty ȝeir to giddir [con]trar Rome
1654 Conv. Burghs III 390.
Thair counsall to consist of thertie persouns

b. As part of a larger (cardinal or ordinal) number. 1375 Barb. xi 237 (C).
Of fechtand men I trow thai ware Thretty thousand, and sum deill mare
a1400 Leg. S. xxiii 179.
The threty-tyd ȝere ewinely Of Theod[o]sis seygnery
?1438 Alex. i 187.
Threttie
c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2353.
The thre and thretty buke … feist
1434 Chart. Coupar A. II 33.
The yhere of oure lorde a thousand foure hunder thretti and foure
1436 Coll. Aberd. & B. 394.
Therti
1438 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 266.
Therty
1438 Ayr Friars Pr. Chart. 49.
Threty
a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 736 (Asl.).
In myd age as thre & thretty ȝere
1516 Treas. Acc. V 87.
Thrette
1536 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III 222.
Thrytty
1548 Boyd Fam. P. No. 26 (6 Aug.).
Of the sade trattye twa bollis of wittell
1548 Boyd Fam. P. No. 27 (6 Aug.).
To pay ȝerlye to the sade Elezabeth Crawfurd tratty twa bollis of wittell be ȝer
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3032.
Fute men threttye hundreth thousand
1559 Aberd. B. Rec. I 320.
Tuo pair of censuris of tretty aucht wnce
a1605 Montg. Flyt. 411 (H).
And quhill their thryse threttie knottis on this blew threid byd
1612 M. Works Acc. (ed.) I 327.
Throttie
1627 Brechin Test. IV 291.
Threittie ane dun coidis
1653 Laing MSS 275.
He thinks mor of being toucht on halff hour off God than of all his threthi seven yeares studeis at colidges & books
1658 Conv. Burghs III 468.
Therty thousand pund sterling
1672 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 22 Nov.
Thratie
1677 Rothesay B. Rec. 349.
Thrity
1681 Irvine Mun. II 284.
Therritie and tuo pound and seven shiling and ten penies Scotes
1694 Lett. (Annandale Papers, R. C. Reid transcript).
Therttie

2. Put for the ordinal number: Thirtieth. = Threttieth num. and adj. a and b.a. 1522 Melville Chart. 62.
The threty day of August
a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 18.
Christell Seytoun … deit in the thretye yeir of Allexander the Thryd
b. 1644 Sc. N. & Q. 1 Ser. XII 60.
Our minister this day returned from Ingland when text was upon the 15 v. of the thirtie of Jerimia
1666 Aberd. B. Rec. IV 231.
Ane day of thanksgiving to be keepit thorrowout this kingdome wpon the thrittie of this instant
1678 Stirlings of Keir 514.
To … be att Perth the threttie of this instant

B. absol. and ellipt., passing into noun. 1375 Barb. iv 405 (C).
Soyn fra the batis saw thai ga Of Ynglis men thretty and ma
1375 Barb. ix 640 (C).
Ay for ane thai var thretty
c1420 Wynt. iii 161.
Than to that thretty at the mete … He sayd [etc.]
c1420 Wynt. vii 2821.
A thowsand twa hundyr and thretty gane And to tha yhit reknyt ane
c1420 Ratis R. 1275.
The ferd eild … Fra xv ȝer … It lestis weill til ful thretty
a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 247.
The roy rekinnit on raw Thretty and thre
a1500 Rauf C. 694.
He thristit in throw threttie all atanis
1578 Bk. Carlaverock II 484.
Twentie or threttie at the monyest
1661 Acts VII 252/2.
Lambs ilk thirtie, tuo ounces [bullion]
1684 S. Ronaldshay 65.
The moderator answered that if ten, twentie or thertie were qualified, it ought not to be omitted

b. comb. With sum, see Sum(e pron. 10.

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