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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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†EXCRESCE, n. Increase, augmentation; surplus (Sc. 1825 Jam.²).Sc. 1707 J. Stewart Index to Scots Acts 14:
The Excresce of the Excise of the Inland Salt, and Forraign Commodities, etc.Sc. 1709 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Decisions (1826) V. 56:
There happened in the coining sometimes an excresce on the tale of five or six shillings or thereby.Sc. 1816 Scott Letters (1932) I. 504:
They will still have about £400 excresce of the English bills.