Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

(Sold,) Soulde, Soud, Sawd, v. Also: (seld). [ME (Chaucer) and e.m.E. soud(e), sould (1418), f. Sold n. or perhaps directly f. OF soudre, saudre, souldre, L. solvere to pay.] To pay; to retain for service by payment. — 1456 Hay I 53/17.
He fand … grete quantitee of gold … with the quhilk he sawdit grete nowmer of men of armys that him nedit nocht to send to Rome for wagis 1456 Hay I 143/23, 26.
That the Duk of Brytaigne send gold in Almayne for to soulde men of armes … to kepe his contree. … And quhen he is souldit the chyftane [etc.] 1558-66 Knox II 55.
What pioneris shalbe had? Ye shall answer … money be in reddenes to seld [? erron. for sold] thame thei shall have sufficientlie