Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1727, 1800
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†BRINT, v., pa.p. Burnt.Sc. 1727 in C. D. Bentinck Dornoch Cath. and Par. (1926) 465:
She . . . now occupies a niche in the Temple of Fame as the last of the many witches who, in the dark and troublous days of a bygone age, were “wirreit at the stake and brint in assis” in Scotland.Per. c.1800 Lady Nairne Songs (ed. Rogers 1905) 209:
I'm brint, I'm brint, how cam' it this way? I fear I'll no ride for mony a day.
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