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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Deve, Deiv(e, Deave, v. Also: dewe. deif(f, deaf. [ME. deve (14th c.), OE. (á) déafian.] tr. To deafen; to stun or annoy with talk or din.(a) c1420 Wynt. v. 2728.
Thay fell on kneys and cryid sa fast, That thai hym devyd [C. dewit] at the last a1500 Doug. K. Hart 903.
To crak and cry alway quhill he hir deve, That I command him a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 360.
Deulbere, thow devis the deuill, thyne eme, wyth dyn c1500-c1512 Dunb. xxvi. 118.
The Devill sa devit wes with thair ȝell a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 657.
He grieues vs, and deues [v.r. devis] vs, with sophistries and schifts(b) a1568 Bann. MS. 123 a/27.
Till deif ȝow with tome clatter (c1500-c1512 Dunb.) Ib. 152 a/360.
Thow deivis the devill … with din (a1570-86 Dunb.) Maitl. F. xi. 118.
The dewell so deifet was with thair ȝell 15.. Clar. iii. 602.
And with hir cairfull voice the court scho deives [: neives] a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxiii. 47.
I will not stand with mo words ȝou to deiv 1596 Dalr. II. 276/15.
The vesselis brokin al in peaces deiues al thair eiris 1641 Baillie I. 325.
We were deived all day with the ringing of bells  1644 Baillie II. 164.
Every one of these last eight dayes we have been deaffed with newes of a great and bloodie battell in the north(c) 1606 Craig ii. 43/11.
Thy daffings deauis my Lais eare 1609 Gardyne Garden 62.
Never shall their sorrows cease, not whill They deaue the dead a1650 Row 436.
Let the Christian reader judge … if the world had not been deaved with the din thereof c1650 Spalding I. 150.
The nobill brughe of Abirdein, daylie deavit with the cuming of ane army, … began then to be hartles Ib. II. 209.
We wes deavit … when Generall Leslie wes in the feildis, bot now no word for the Kingis victories