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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Eke, Eik, n. Also: eyk, eike, eick, eeke, ikke. [e.m.E. and ME. eke, OE. éaca.]

1. An addition; an additional amount. 1524 Dunferm. B. Rec. 208.
Deliuerit of Adam Blacot … xvij s. to pay the eik of the burrov mail of this yeer 1567 Rep. Mar & Kellie MSS. 20.
To keip … this prescrywed ordour without eyk or demynutioun 1588 Reg. Great S. 510/1.
Pro una denariata de Schabay in eik 6 sol. 8 den.; pro 3 den. ejusdem 30 den. in eik a1605 Montg. Sonn. xxv. 7.
Eit bread, ill aill, and all things are ane eik 1642 Wemyss Corr. 52.
That regiment beeing but an ikke and complement of the bodie of the Scotts foote 1705 Corshill Baron Ct. 206.
The haill fewares … confessed guilty of … buying and selling of victual by eick and additione

2. An addition or supplement to a document or statement. 1554 Montgomery Mem. 151.
The partiis … abone specifit, apprevand the thre eikis on the margane 1566 St. A. Kirk S. 286.
Wiliam Cristeson … comperis … and producis an eik to his former allegacionis 1577 Digest Justiciary Proc. I. 74.
The terme assignet for geving of interloquitour vpoun the allegance, excusatioun, ansueris, and eikis 1577 Waus Corr. I. 142.
Befor the interloquitor I tuke purposs to giff occasioun of delay be certane ekis 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I. 169.
Item, The dans of Sanct Katherines Hill, conforme to Bessie Thom, with this eik 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX. 179.
The eik vnder written is maid to this testament 1632 Dundonald Par. Rec. 341.
William Yonge gave in into ane severall bill ane eik to his former complaint 1640 Baillie I. 252.
After much jangleing and repetition, with manie eikes of odious (whether true or fabulous) narrations 1683 Decis. Lords F. 36.
The Lords found the foresaid bond, albeit containing an eik in the terms foresaid, … belonged to the executor

3. An additional part or piece. 1583–4 Edinb. D. of Guild Acc. 21.
For the eik of ane cord to the curphour bell 1602 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 308.
That all inhabitants … that uses any wechts that thai haif thame of ane peice without cleikis and eiks 1611 Brechin Test. III. 169 b.
Ane skarlot wyllicott with blak eikis & blak sleiffis 1635 Haddington Corr. 301.
Ane table of aik, … with an eik to the samen of fir