Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Dart, Dairt, n. Also: darte, dert(e. [ME. darte (c 1300), OF. dart.] A dart, light spear or javelin.(a) a1400 Leg. S. vii. 466.
With alkyne instrument of were, As gyne, slonge, darte & spere c1420 Wynt. v. 4526.
Ane angyle … Wes send schwtand a dart off ire ?1438 Alex. i. 1671.
Dartis and staffis heidit with steill Thay bair 1492 Myll Spect. 281/5.
He stud on fer and schot at him thre fellone dartis c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 199.
Thik was the schote of grundyn dartis kene 1533 Boece x. xiv. 384 b.
Danis … schot thare awfull dartis and brade arrowis 1567 Sat. P. iii. 29.
Dartis about him swyftlie could he flingfig. 1537 Lynd. Depl. Magd. 15.
O dreidfull dragoun, with thy duleful dart 1567 Sat. P. iii. 183.
Quhill [I] … feill deithis dartis dolorus 1603 Philotus lv.
Incendit with the dart of grit desyre(b) (a1568 Henr.) Bann. MS. 56 b/6.
Quhen I pleis schute the derte (a1568 Scott) Ib. 237 b/21.
That crewell dert outthrow my hart wald boir (c1500-c1512 Dunb.) Ib. 344 a/121.
As steill dertis scherpit scho his pennis 1611-57 Mure Misc. P. i. 29.
Quhose … deidly derts No martiall mynds eschued(c) 15.. Clar. i. 167.
Cupid … with his scharp grindine dairt a1578 Pitsc. I. 74/30.
Ane schour of dairtis and arrowis a1585 Maitl. Q. xcv. 1.
O deith … with dairt so dolorous a1605 Montg. Son. xxxix. 3.
Sueet secreit sigh more peircing nor a dairt 1614 Mure Misc. P. vi. 1.
To thé Cupido ȝeilds his golden dairt