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Se-cost, n. Also: see-, sey-, sea-, seæ-, sie- and -coast, -coist. [ME and e.m.E. see-coost (14th c.), sea-coast (1590).] The land adjacent to the sea, the sea-coast; the sea-shore.(1) 1513 Doug. iii iv 29.
Endlang the sey [Sm. see] costis bay, Vp sonkis set and desys dyd array 1513 Doug. iii iv 58.
Quhen the sey costis and the feildis Resoundis at down come of thir harpeys 1533 Boece 183b.
In Murray … apoun the sey coist amang ald wallis of ane failȝete castell 1535 Stewart 38859.
Sa mony men … keild Vpone ane sand liggand be the se cost 1541 Elgin Rec. I 60.
Alexander Williamson wrangit in passing to the see coast and making of merchat with Franchmen in bying of xx pottis of irone 1547 Corr. M. Lorraine 188.
To devis quhar it is mest ganand to byg in Fiff on the see cost 1552 Reg. Privy C. I 127.
The borrowis nixt adjacent the sey cost a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 15.
Thay landis are callit Seytoun for ane grit caus, becaus thay ly hard vpon the sey cost 1566-70 Buch. Comm. on Virgil Æn. iii 263.
De litore: ex ora maris (on the sea coste) 1570 Crail B. Ct. MS 14 Nov.
Of certane wair … collectit … be thame vpoun the sea cost 1581 Acts III 255/2.
The haill wraik and wayth sal happin to be fund … within the boundis of the said landis or sie cost thairoff 1622-6 Bisset II 249/30.
On the seæ coistis of France towardis the occien(2) c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 28/100.
Matremony … chest Sklander to the west se cost 1542 Reg. Privy S. II 728/1.
Oure soverane lordis assise hering of the west sey cost fra Pentland Firth in the north to the Mwle of Galloway in the south