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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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FOURTEEN, num.adj., n. Also †-tein; foorteen (Abd. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb vii.). The ordinal form is fourteent. By the usual Sc. idiom the cardinal is freq. used for the ordinal, as in dates (Gsw. 1716 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (B.R.S.) 577). Gen.Sc. [Sc. ′for′ti:n, Bwk., Rxb. + ′fʌuər-]

Sc. n. usage, now obs.: a fourteen-shilling piece Sc. money, a Merk, after the raising of its value from thirteen and fourpence, equivalent in British money to fourteen pence (see R. W. Cochran-Patrick Records Coinage Scot. (1876) II. 252).Sc. 1698 J. Kirkwood Plea before Kirk 33:
I got the Letters from a Gentleman upon the Street, and two Fourteens to carry them to my Lord.Sc. 1705 Papers Rev. J. Anderson 71:
I bought of him for the Session the lands of Boghead for seven hunder and eighty three merks, and gave him two fourteens out of my own pocket in dead earnest.