drink-silvern.
Scottish.
= drink-money n.; a perquisite. Also figurative.
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1467 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 87 (Jam.) And at na drinksiluer be tane be the maister nor his doaris.
1489 Treasurer's Bks. 10 July in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 396 Given to the gunners to drink-silver, when they cartit Monss..18 shillings.
1637 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 297 I cannot get a house in this town wherein to leave drink~silver in my Master's name.
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Drink-siller is still the vulgar designation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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