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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1858

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¶GREW, adj. Grey.Sc. 1858 Sc. Haggis 133:
An auld red Kilmarnock on his puir grew pow.

[If not a misprint, the form may be based on the analogy of grew- < grey- in Grewhoun(d).]

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