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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

TWIXT, prep. Sc. phr. †twixt and . . ., with omission of the first date; between now and . . ., at some time before (the date specified).Gall. 1705 Session Bk. Minnigaff (1939) 168:
To commune with the minister in order to a more through sense of her sin twixt and the nixt.Sc. 1713 Nairne Peerage Evid. (1873) 50:
Any of the lawful days twixt and the fifteenth of November then next to come.

[O.Sc. twixt and, id., 1689.]

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