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Barney Jamieson, ‎Barney Barneystone (of Edinburgh.) - 1840 - ‎Read - ‎More editions
To GIF, GYF, GIFF, v. a. To give; now generally softened into gie, S. It is the mast ferlyfull sycht That euir I saw, quhen for to fycht The Scottis men has tane on hand; Agayne the mycht of Ingland, In plane hard feild, to giff batail. Barbour, xii. 457.)