A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1600-1651
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(Over-se,) Oversea, Owersie, a. [e.m.E. overse(e (1509), ouersea; cf. OE. ofersǽwisc, Over-se adv. and Our-se a.] Foreign. a. Imported from overseas; fig. ‘far-fetched’. b. Situated overseas. —a. 1600-1610 Melvill 54.
His new opiniones and owersie dreames anent the Kirk 1600-1610 Ib. 68.
Thair conceats and owersie dreames, imitation of Genev discipline a1651 Calderwood III. 369.b. 1645 Rutherford Tryal Faith (1645) 6.
The wife of youth, that … expects he [sc. her husband] shall return to her from oversea lands
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