A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1604-1605
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Kyt(e, Kite, n.2 [e.m.E. kite, e.m.E. and ME. kyte, OE. cýta.] A kite. the bird of prey; also. as in e.m.E., as a term of abuse or detestation. (The usual Older Sc. word is gled.) — a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xviii. 44.
This girking … throu love, alace, He come acquantit with a kyt [infra that gled] a1605 Ib. 70.
To tell the halk … The kyt wes palȝard and perjure a1605 Id. Flyt. 788 (T).
Meslie kyt [H. kite], and thow flyt, deill dryt in thy gob
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