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Quotation dates: 1662
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Pow, n.3(Conceivably Pow n.2 but the discrepancy in regional provenance makes this doubtful.) —1662 Criminal Trials III 605.
[In Auldearn:] It [a clay image of a child] was lyk a pow or a flain gryce1662 Ib. 615.
A pictor … lyk a child, als big as a pow1662 Ib. 618.
It was about the bignes of a feadge or pow
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