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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1608
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Mouche. (? Erroneous; ? for mouthe, fig. use of Mouth n. 3, ‘voice, spokesman’.) — 1608 in Calderwood VI. 749.
The greatest step to the full subverting of our kirk governement, the mouche, as I take it, of truthe in religioun
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