a. Sc. Also 5 vowsty, 6 voustie, 7 vowstie. [Cf. VOUST sb. and v.]

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  † 1.  ? Puffed up, tumid. Obs.–1

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c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xliii. (Cecile), 536. A bose of wynd þat fillit ware, & with a prene mocht out be latine … and togiddire fal, & tyne þe vowsty blawing al.

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  2.  Boastful, proud.

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1596.  Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. 212. Of quhilke victorie … tha war sa vane and voustie, that [etc.].

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1606.  Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 4. Euery Nation seruing it selfe with the owne vowstie deuise.

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1789.  Beattie, To Alex. Ross, xvi. And chiels shall come frae ’yont the Cairn-a-mounth right vousty.

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