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Quhar(e)out, Quhair-out, rel. adv. [e.m.E. and ME where-, wher-out (1375), huerout (Ayenbite), Quhare C 5, Out prep.] Out of which. — 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 160b.
Quhy haue ȝe not cottit the places of ȝour bybill, quhair out thai ar drauin? 1592 Acts III 553/1.
The thriddis teyndis and vtheris dewties … quharout the ministeris stipendis wer in vse to be takin
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