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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1825, 1897

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HOUSIT, adj., n.

I. adj. Household, domestic, home-made.Ags. 1825 J. Ross Sermon 27:
Yet ye cam' thro' a' free o' skaith A piece o' sonsie housit claith.

II. n. A household.Ags. 1897 A. Reid Bards of Ags. 224:
Watchin' my footstaps to husit or ha'.

[O.Sc. housit, from a.1538, a reduced form of houshald. For a sim. reduction cf. Hamit.]

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