Sc. Obs. In full linget-seed. Also 6 lingeat, 8 linjet. [An unexplained var. of linnet, earlier form of LINT sb.] The seed of ‘lint’ or flax, linseed. Oly(e lingeat: linseed oil.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., VIII. (Preach. Swallow), xviii. Se ye yon churle,… Fast sawand hemp and gude linget seid? Ibid., xxvi. Yone lint heirefter will do gude; For linget is to litill birdis fude.
1477. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 408. Thre peckis of lynget, and thre pekkis of hemp sede.
1501. in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot., II. 25. Item, for iiij pointis olye lingeat xijs. Ibid. (1505–6), III. 184. Item, for ane quart oly lingeat viijs.
1609. Skene, Reg. Maj., 152. Linget seed.
1655. in Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs (1878), III. 420. Repairing thither with ane bagg of linget.
1794. Piper of Peebles, 6 (E.D.D.). An’ nane but hamit linjet sawn,—Fan lint was beaten wi’ the mill.
