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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Bibill, Bybill, n. Also: bibil(e, bible; bybille, bybyll, bybell, byble; bebell. [ME. bibel, -ill, bible, and bybill, -ylle, byble, etc., OF. bible, L. biblia.]

1. The (or a) Bible.In Bann. MS. 216 a/14 and Buchanan Detect. T i b bybill is probably an error for lybill.(a) 1375 Barb. i. 466.
As men in the bibill seys c1515 Asl. MS. I. 185/4.
Quhilk is contenit in the bibill 1533 Gau 34/10.
Thay suld first tech thayme the bibil 1549 Compl. 23/29.
Thyr said cheptours of the bibil 1575 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. 707/1.
To by ane bibile to the kirk 1649 Wemyss Chart. II. 233.
My grit brotherd bebell(b) c1420 Wynt. i. 169.
The bybyll tellys it opynly Ib. v. 3573.
Saynct Jerome Translated the bybill off Hebrewe c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2742.
The bybill sayis it wes no les 1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 68.
Ane bybill … coverit with fyne purpourit veluot 1581 Acts III. 211/1.
That houshalderis haif bybillis and psame buikis 1619 Edinb. Test. L. 265.
Ane bybill, price foure pundis 1622 Misc. Bann. C. III. 200.
In his buithe … twa bybillis in Lateine 1664 Mun. Univ. Glasg. II. 339.
The booke of God called the Bybill(c) 1456 Hay I. 7/23.
As is tald … in the bible Ib. 69/23.
As the bible beris witnes 1546 Lynd. Trag. Card. 324.
That day quhen I was byschope consecrat, The gret byble wes bound apon my bak 1596 Dalr. II. 266/8.
Quhaeuir wald reid the byble in the Jnglis toung 1681 Foulis Acc. Bk. 94.
To buy a bybleattrib. 1567 G. Ball. 218.
With bybill materis to begin

2. Bibill buke, a copy of the Bible. 1492 Acta Conc. 243/1.
The spoliatioun … of … a bible buk 1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 183.
He leuis … to his brother … ane bybill buik 1622 Ib. LI. 162.
Ane bybill buik pryce xl s.