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Sut(e, Suit(e, n.2 Also: swit. [ME and e.m.E. soth (a1200), sote (c1302), soot (Trevisa), swot (a1400), sute (1541), OE sót.] Soot.(a) a1400 Leg. S. xi 440.
Ethiopis … As ony sut fere mare blake a1400 Leg. S. xxviii 428.
Blakar thane ony sut wes he 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV 115b.
viijc … winter skynnis markit with ane irne vpoun the craig with sute a1605 Montg. Flyt. 286 (T).
This ghaist … Swir sweillit in ane swyneskin and smeirit our with sute 1595 Duncan App. Etym.
Fuligo, sute 1616 Orkney & Zetl. Sheriff Ct. 72b.
She … tuik thrie luikis of assis out of thrie newkis of the chimnay with sum sute and knit the same altogether in a clout(b) c1580 Bann. Trans. 485.
He vomeit mekle lyk blood, but it was blak lyk suite a1585 Polwart Flyt. 685 (T).
Thy sentences of swit richt sweitlie smellis, Thow sat neir the chymlay nuik that maid thame 1650 Culross 235.
They drank King Charles' helth in a beare glass and chopin bicker, … with suit amongst the drink, and pieces of tolbacco-pyps and broken candelproverb. and quasi-proverb. a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 55.
A drop of sute wil spil a potful of bruse a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 837.
I love it war nor sute — 1584-9 Maxwall Commonpl. Bk. 23b.
Ane wicked wyfe, ane wantownet & ane waine Is lyk ane hous that droppis suit & raine
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