Sc. Obs. [a. ON. veiðimann-, veiðimað-r, f. veiði-, veið-r WAITH sb.1] A hunter; esp. applied to forest outlaws.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., I. 1446. Þis Menbrot [i.e., Nimrod] stalwart was of pythe And waythe man he was þar wiþ. Ibid., VII. 3526. Litil Iohun and Robert Hude Waythmen war commendit gud.

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1536.  Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), II. 354. The waithman, Robert Hode.

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  attrib.  1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxxiii. 8. Me thocht a Turk of Tartary … lay forloppin in Lumbardy, ffull lang in waithman weid.

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1573.  Satir. Poems Reform., xxxix. 144. Quhill force did faill, and than I saw thame fane To cry ‘Peccaui’ with the waithman noit.

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15[?].  Murning Maiden, 64, in Maitl. Folio MS. (S.T.S.), I. 362. In waithman weyd Sen I ȝow find In þis wod walkand ȝour alone.

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