Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- CHAPTER 2 DOST and the Literary Scholar -- CHAPTER 3 The History and Development of DOST -- CHAPTER 4 'There is Nothing Like a Good Gossip': Baptism, Kinship and Alliance in Early Modern Scotland -- CHAPTER 5 'Wyne Confortative': Wine in Scotland from the Thirteenth till the Eighteenth Centuries -- CHAPTER 6 Law and Lexicography: DOST and Late Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Shipping Law -- CHAPTER 7 Cereal Terms in the DOST Record -- CHAPTER 8 The Spread of a Word: Scail in Scots and Sgaoil in Gaelic -- CHAPTER 9 Place Names as Evidence in the History of Scots -- CHAPTER 10 DOST and MED and the Virtues of Sibling Rivalry -- CHAPTER 11 Was it Murder? John Comyn of Badenoch and William, Earl of Douglas -- CHAPTER 12 Interpreting Scots Measurement Terms: a Cautionary Tale -- CHAPTER 13 The Use of the Scottish National Dictionaries in the Study of Traditional Construction -- CHAPTER 14 DOST and LAOS: a Caledonian Symbiosis? -- CHAPTER 15 Envoi -- APPENDIX I The Editors of DOST -- APPENDIX 2 Contributors to this volume -- Bibliography -- Index