A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1605
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(Terie,) Tearie, Tirie, adj. [ME and e.m.E. tery (Chaucer), teary (c1420).] a. Covered with tears, tearful. b. Consisting of tears. —a. 15.. Clariodus i 454.
They tuike thair leave at utheris pitiouslie, With tirie faces 15.. Clariodus ii 659. —b. a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xxxvii 4.
A tearie fluid does blind thir ees of myne
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