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Sprutlit, Sprut(t)it, Sproulit, Spurtlit, p.p., ppl. adj. Also: sprutlyt, sprutillit, sprutelit, sprutal, spriltillit, spurtled, spurtill, spourtlit, spirtlet, -ed. [Sprutlis n. pl. Also in the later dial.] Spotted, speckled.p.p. 1460 Hay Alex. 10188.
Quhan alkin hewis ar spruttit in the ene With spottis of blak and rede and quhyte betweneppl. adj. 1513 Doug. ii iv 32.
Thai [sc. serpents] … twys faldis thar sprutlit [Sm. spurtlit, Ruddim. sprutillit] skynnys, … About hys hals 1513 Doug. vii iii 91.
A byrd … With sprutlyt [Ruddim. spourtlit, E. spruttit] weyngis 1513 Doug. xi xiv 69.
Sprutlyt skalys [Ruddim. sprutelit] 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 180.
The sprutlyt [1553 The sprutal] calvys sowkand the red hyndis(b) c1500 Rowll Cursing 221 (M).
And sum [sc. devils] with … tyger tungis Attour thair berdis lyk blaudis of longis Spottit and sprutit vp and doun Reid attry lyk ane scorpioun 1513 Doug. vii iii 91 (E.) (see (a) above).
Spruttit 1594 Black Bk. Taymouth 299.
Ane mekill gray meir, sprutit heydit(c) 1541–2 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS XVIII 84.
Ane quhit sproulit hors(d) 1542 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS XIX 24.
Ane quhit sprittillit hors(e) 1579 Edinb. Test. VII 272b.
Ane dosane of reid spurtill cunnyng skynnis price thairof xx s. 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 345.
Spirtlet 1590 Burel Pilgr. i 358.
The phœnix and the nichtingell Quhois pretie wing I did persaue So spurtlit and so spred 1604-9 Grahame Anat. Hum. 16b.
Drinke … transformes his nose in a red rock of spurtled and white-headed rubies c1663 Kelso Baillie Ct. 70.
Ane spurtled gray naig 1673 Argyll Justic. Rec. 29.
Ane red spirtled kow