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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1925

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BESTAN, adj. Best.Abd. in Greig and Keith Last Leaves (1925) 147:
The bestan cock o a' the reest At your supper shall be.

[Cf. firstan, nextan, on same page as quot.; an, suff., may be imitated from eightin, eighth. Cf. also Auchteen,2 eighth.]

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