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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1802, 1899

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STYTHE, n. A place, abode, station. Rare.Sc. 1802 Scott Minstrelsy II. 93:
Out of my stythe I winna rise.Fif. 1899 J. Allan Flutorum 34:
Liv'd Effie by hersel, Upon her ain bit pendicle An eerie stythe to dwell.

[The evidence for this word is somewhat doubtful. The MS. from which Scott took the ballad reads stye and stythe is an emendation by Scott appar. intended as an archaic form of Steid, and phs. due partly to formal confusion with n.Eng. dial. staithe, a wharf, landing-stage. The 1899 quot. is prob. a reminiscence of Scott's Minstrelsy. Motherwell in his Minstrelsy (1827) 134 sim. reads stythe for MS. stye (Fause Foodrage xviii.).]

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