• The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is a 12-volume dictionary that documents the history of the Scots language covering Older Scots from...
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    Safeguard (costume) (category History of clothing (Western fashion))
    Kelly Stage, The Roaring Girl: Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker (Broadview, 2019) p. 91. Wardegard, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Melanie Schuessler...
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  • Scots Dictionary" (Robinson M. (ed.) (1985) the "Concise Scots Dictionary, Chambers, Edinburgh. p. xiii) and "A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue" (Dareau...
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    the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, the origin of the word is uncertain. However, the...
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  • available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), 12 volumes...
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  • areas, like the English Dialect Dictionary, the Scottish National Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, the Dictionary of American...
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  • list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. Figures do not take account of entries...
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    Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. Vol. 12. Corbett, John; McClure, Derrick; Stuart-Smith, Jane, eds. (2003). "A Brief History of Scots". The Edinburgh...
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  • A. J. Aitken (category Scottish lexicographers)
    Assistant to Sir William Craigie, the Editor of A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and became Editor of DOST on Craigie's retirement in 1956...
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  • the part of Robert Pitcairn, the modern editor. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue lists only the Elfame and elphyne spellings, both defined as...
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  • original on 2015-09-11. Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries Scottish National Dictionary Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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    Dictionary (1911). Scottish National Dictionary and Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective R. D. Connor...
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    (2002). "A history of Scots to 1700". Dictionaries of the Scots Language :: History of Scots to 1700. Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. Vol. 12. p. xxix-clvii...
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    Kelpie (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    retrieved 4 May 2014 Carlyle (1788), p. 72 "kelpie, n", A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700) (online ed.), retrieved 6 July 2014 Westwood...
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  • Middle English Dictionary, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, and Historical Thesaurus of English all also include material relevant to Old English. Like...
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  • History of the Scots language Macafee, Caroline; Aitken, A. J. (2002). "A History of Scots to 1700 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue vol. XII...
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    Stoor worm (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue that covers the period up to the start of the 18th century; later volumes, when it was published as the Dictionary...
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    Scottish National Dictionary (1700–). Scottish Language Dictionaries. Retrieved 20 February 2017. "ken". A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up...
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  • Language Scottish Language Dictionaries Scottish National Dictionary Association Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue "The Confidential Causerie. The Scottish...
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    William Craigie (category Chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary)
    the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered. Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his...
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    the spelling changed from Medieval golf to Early Modern gowf, and then back again. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue gives the etymology of...
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    Ell (redirect from Ell (Scottish length))
    [Scottish] Gaelic Dictionary (1911). See p. 861. Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland Scottish National Dictionary and Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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  • Fairyland (category Scottish folklore)
    of faerie, "as if he were come from faerie". DOST (Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue) entry, retrieved using the electronic "Dictionary of the Scots...
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  • of the Scottish Language – Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate (1968). Report (1968) by the Standing...
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  • 1450 Middle Scots to 1700 The online Dictionary of the Scots Language includes the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue. Such chronological terminology...
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  • Gaelic dictionary comparable to the resources available for Scots and English through the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, the Scottish National...
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    Alloa Tower (category 14th century in Scotland)
    the Scotland by David Moysie (Edinburgh: Maitland Club, 1830), p. 161 'New-ȝere', Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue 'infare', Dictionary of the Older...
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    Barmkin (category Castles in Scotland)
    Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. "barmkin". A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700). Dictionaries of the Scots Language...
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  • for the major Scots dictionaries, the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary. Since 2004, all 22 volumes of these...
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  • 1718, ed. by Bell and Bradfute (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1792), 1:73/29. See Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, s.v. toung. "William Pattent was at worke...
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