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Trantillis, n. pl. [? Cf. later Sc. trantlims(1768), trantels (1865). Perhaps ultim. f. Trental n. thirty requiem masses: Cf. collocation in Scott of tvme trentallis with tryfillis. Cf. also triis s.v. Tre n. 10.] — c1630 Misc. Hist. Soc. II 265.
Stand on the plenising of the house for I think this trantillis and triis will be bot of small avell
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