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Outdraucht, n. Also: owt- and -drawcht, -draught, -drauch, -dracht, -draycht, -drecht. [Late ME. (once) outdrauȝt (c 1449 Pecock), otherwise appar. only 16th c. Sc.: appar. after L. extractum.] An extract, abstract or partial copy (of a record or account). 1530 Exch. R. XV. 584.
As the outdraucht of the rentall heirto schawin thairupoun beris 1533 Treas. Acc. VI. 98.
To the consistory clerk for the outdraucht of ane contracte 1540 Acta Conc. Publ. Aff. 494.
That thai compeir … befor the said thesaurar … and schew thar outdrauchtis and ressave payment of all sowmes allowit to thame 1542 Acts II. 415/2.
To gif furth the extract and outdracht of all proces of forfaltoure concerning the Erle of Anguis 1554 Bks. Sederunt MS. I. 68.
Ane outdrauch of the thesaurar comptis 1555 Conv. Burghs I. ii.
The saidis provestis and commissionaris … ordanis ane out draucht or copy to be maid of the petecustomes buikis 1565 Instit. Ct. Sess. 7 a.
That quha compeiris in ony actioun but ane sufficient mandet or authentik outdraucht of constitutione 1566–7 Prot. Bk. Thomas Johnsoun 154.
[Requisition of] the outdraucht of the proces of ane blude allegit committit be [etc.] 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 62.
George Towris of Innerleith … gave in … the tikkat and outdracht of compt underwrittin 1571 Cal. Sc. P. III. 641.
Owtdraycht 1573–4 Bk. Old Edinb. C. VI. 90.
Outdrecht c1575 Balfour Pract. 368. 1583 in Pennecuik Historical Account of the Blue Blanket (1756) 86.
The clerk sall have at their buiking of ilk person [sc. as apprentice] sex pennies and for the out-draught twelff pennies Colston Incorp. Trades Edinb. (1891) 231. 1596 Conv. Burghs I. 495.
The … commissioneris offerit … the owtdrawcht of the forme of gildre vsit at Edinbrugh