A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
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Quotation dates: 1500, 1558-1595
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(Rimbursin,) Rumbursin, n. and adj. Also: rym-. [Rim n.2 and Bursin p.p. See also Rimburst.] a. noun. Rupture; hernia. b. adj. Ruptured. —a. c1500 Rowll Cursing 58 (B).
The worme the wareit wedonynpha Rumbursin rippilis or bellythra 1595 Edinb. B. Rec. V 137.
The curing of that sort of rymbursin quha hes thair entrellis fallin in thair bawcod —b. 1558 Criminal Trials I i 404 n.
Allegis that he is … rumbursin
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