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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1457, 1543-1616
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Mussellit, Mus(s)al(l)it, -yt, ppl. a. [e.m.E. mouseled (1530), musled (a 1550), muz(z)led. Cf. also Missel(l)it.]
1. In heraldry: Having, or wearing, a muzzle (of a certain colour). 1561 Antiq. Aberd. & B. III. 502.
Sche … suld beir … azur thre beirheidis siluir mussalit sable … as in heir vnder depaintit
2. Having the face covered with a ‘muffler’ (Mussel(l n. 4), ‘muffled’, masked, chiefly for concealment or disguise. 1457 Acts II. 49/2.
At na woman cum to the kirk nor mercat with hir face musalyt or couerit that scho may nocht be kende 1543 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 535.
[Certain armed Scots] musalit with tippettis our thar faices 1582 Reg. Privy C. III. 495.
Accumpanyit with certane uther musalit men on hors back, in weirlike maner, with pistolettis 1582 Ib. 525.
All mussallit 1616 Criminal Trials III. 383.
The said Williame Scott being than mussellit
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