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Quotation dates: 1500-1623
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Schouting, -yng, vbl. n. Also: schoute-, schoutt-, s(c)howt-; schuitt-. [ME shoutynge (Chaucer); S(c)hout v.] The action of shouting, in senses 1, 1 b and 1 e of S(c)hout v. Also schoutting out.(1) 1535 Stewart 7185.
Caratac … all the laif into the feild gart ga With greit noyis and schoutting … Commanding thame to tak the feild atanis 1579 Despauter (1579).
Joyfull schouting and crying 1623 Perth Kirk S. MS 25 Sept.
Accuseit for his … great insolence … in roring and going throw the streittis with great schoutting(2) 1622 Criminal Trials III 510.
Ane ȝoung infant bairne … thair remanit with continuall schouteing and crying, nocht being of habilitie to move or gang(3) c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 25.
The skyes rang for schoutyng of the larkis a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 101 (W).
Throw schouting [L. schuitting] of the larkis(4) 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Georgics iii 536.
Stridentia, schoutting out
b. Noise made by shouting; uproar. 1513 Doug. vi iii 123.
Thai schowting, gowling, and clamour, abowt him maid 1539 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 211.
We dischairgis all nycht waikstaris makand oyes or showtyng … under the payne of lying in the stokis 1573 Inverness Rec. I 230.
Trocht quhais trublis rasit schoutting and crying in the nycht
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