A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1375, 1499-1500, 1672
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(Outcum,) Outcome, Oute-, n. [Early ME. utcome (Ancr. R.), otherwise appar. only Sc.] a. The act of coming out. b. The coming out or drawing out of the year, the time when the days begin to lengthen. —a. 1375 Barb. iv. 361 (E).
And we sall ner enbuschyt be Quhar we thar outecome [C. out-cummyng] may se a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 591.
As he was pasing to the dure … Two knichtis kepit, waiting his outcome —b. 1672 M. Bruce Rattling Dry Bones 34.
They are like the frost in the out come, that ere ever the sun be well up, it is flown in the lift again
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