A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1570
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Babe, Baib, n. [Var. of Bab n., corresponding to ME. babe (Gower).] A babe, baby.c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2339 (one bony babe vpone hir kne). 1558 Q. Kennedy Tractive 151 (ane bairne and ane babe). 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 313/5 (quhair the twa babis lay sleipand). 1562-3 Winȝet I. 7/29 (ȝour babis, brether, or vtheris frendis). c 1570 Lennox Mun. 276 (ane ymage of the babe Iesus). c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxxv. 44 M (my bony baib; B. bab).
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