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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1620-1648
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Dilse, Dilce, n. [Gael. duileasg.] Dulse, the edible seaweed. Also comb. dils(e)-seller, and dilcer. 1620 Ellon Presb. 106.
[There is complaint that able men and women … employed themselves gathering] dilce 1620 Ib.
[That] ilk brother caus punisch sic dilceris as are within his awn paroche 1636 Rec. Old Aberd. I. 350.
Elspet Forsyithe and her dochter, dilsseller 1648 Ib. 80.
Ordeanit that na kaill sellar or dilse sellar sall go to the toune of Abd. to sell the samen
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