Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1713-1714
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¶UNCLEIRING, ppl.adj. Not clarifying or solving (a predicament), obscure, doubtful.Sc. a.1714 Earls Crm. (Fraser 1876) II. 505:
The night after this racking into the martyr's sepulcher, St. Olaus appeared to him in a dream, offiring this uncleiring alternative, viz., aither to queyt the kingdome for lyfe, or to lose lyfe and kingdome within thirty dayes.
