A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1456, 1513-1590
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As, Asse, n.2 Also: asz, ase; nas in a nas written for an as. [ME. as, ass, asse, OE. assa.] An ass.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxix. 319 (assis, mulis). c1420 Wynt. iii. 291 (a chek bane off ane as); c1420 Ib. iv. 2658 (ane ox and ane as). 1456 Hay I. 58 (hors and as); 1456 Ib. II. 157 (rude as ane as). 1513 Doug. iv. Prol. 158 (a fordullyt as); 1513 Ib. viii. vi. 16 (the doillit as). a1538 Abell 74 b.
Heid … of a nas1549 Complaynte of Scotland 39/7 (quhen thai herd the asse rair). 1567 Gude and Godlie Ballatis 50 (assis, oxin, and ky). c1590 J. Stewart 33/93 (his ase did tyre).fig. a1585 Maitland Quarto MS lxi. 15.
Mackgill and Orknay, scottisch assisattrib. 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 64/7.
The tail quhou kyng Midas gat tua asse luggis on his hede
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