quhilk

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quhilk

  1. Obsolete form of whilk.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Sir David Lyndsay, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      The cunnying clark, quhilk writith craftelie,
      The plant of poetis, callit Ballendyne,
      Quhose ornat warkis my wit can nocht defyne.
      The cunning clerk, which writes craftily, / The plant of poets called Ballendyne, / Whose ornate works my wit cannot define.
    • 1559, anonymous author, The Complaynt of Scotlande:
      the prophesies of Merlyne, to the quhilk the Inglishmen giffis more confidens nor thai gif to the evangel
      the prophecies of Merlin, to which the Englishmen give more confidence than they give to the gospel