A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1400, 1475
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Outpart, n. [e.m.E. (1598).] An outer, outlying or exterior part. Also, of outpart, from (the) outside. — c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 520 (C).
Thys hors … so subtelly to be wrought That they of out-part apper nought Ne maid oppyn to mannys sight c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace ix. 1757.
On a out part the Scottis set in that tyd
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