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† multiplie Sc. Obs.
Also 5 -ple, -plye.
[app. a. OF. moltepli, multepli multiplication (Godefroy), vbl. n. f. multiplier to multiply.]
Multitude; great numbers or quantity.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1707 ‘Dicson’, he said, ‘wait thow thair multiple?’ ‘Iij thowsand men thair power mycht nocht be’. Ibid. xi. 13 The Sotheroun fled fra him on athir sid To Burdeouss, in gret multiplye. 1549Compl. Scot. i. 23 Quhilk causit..my een to be cum obscure throucht the multiplie of salt teyris. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 7 In sum places is funde multiplie of Tinne. |