A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Adoun, adv. and prep. Also: adoune (adovne), adown. [ME. adoun, earlier adun, adune, ONhb. adūne, adūna, WS. of dūne ‘off the hill’: see Doun n. In Sc. apparently not surviving from ONhb. but adopted from Chaucerian English; numerous examples occur in Douglas's Æneid and Clariodus.]
A. adv. Down, downwards.a1500 Henr. Fab. 638 (to fall vpon the eirth adoun). a1500 Quare of Jelusy 208 (ȝour ȝouth is brocht adoun). 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. i. Prol. 76 (euerie thing adoun); 1513 Æn. iv. ii. 65 (scho hir laid adoun). 15.. Clar. i. 164 (adoun scho sat).
B. prep. Down along. 1611-57 Mure I. 111/478.
Adoune his shoulders raging spates do spowt
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