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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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†ALSE, ALS, adv.² As; = the first of the two correlatives as . . . as, surviving in this use from O.Sc. into the 18th century.Sc. 1706 Lord Seafield's Letters ed. Hume Brown (1915) 103:
The Neu Pairtie wer with me last night and are als right in this mater as I am my selfe.Sc. 1714 John Lord Macleod in The Earls of Cromartie ed. Fraser (1876) II. 148:
He undertakes for all the fishing boats in Gairloch, alse weel for the white as herring fishing.Bnff. 1719 in W. Cramond Minutes of T. Council, Annals of Bnff. (1891) I. 192:
Als much of the green fringes . . . is allowed as will goe about the pulpite and the latrone.Abd. 1711 Records Burgh Aberd. (1872) 343:
All Quakers children whose parents were burghers, are allowed liberty to trade, alse freely as any other burghers.Ayr. 1702 Muniments Royal B. Irvine (Ayr and Gall. Arch. Assn.) (1891) II. 116:
The sone of a provest and als considerable ane heritor as any at the table.Wgt. 1717 in G. Fraser Lowland Lore (1880) 35:
The doors and windows of the said Schoolhouse to be left “in alse good conditione as he receaves the samen.”

With second correlative suppressed:Sc. 1701 Records of a Sc. Cloth Manuf. [Hdg.] (S.H.S. 1905) 255:
Mr Maxwell reports that he hes 18 ends of fyne blacks dyed and bringing foruard as soon as possible, besyds alse many that will shortly therafter come forward.