Sc. Obs. [f. BUSS v.2]

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  1.  = BUSKING vbl. sb.1

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c. 1600[?].  Reid Squair, xv. in Evergreen, II. 230. To put the Bussing on thair Theis.

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  2.  ‘A linen cap or hood, worn by old women, much the same as Toy’ (Jamieson).

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1788.  Picken, Poems, 59 (Jam.). Witches … Wi long-tailed bussins, ty’d behin’.

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