† 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.
| c 1470 Henry 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. 1549 Compl. Scot. i. 23 Quhilk causit..my een to be cum obscure throucht the multiplie of salt teyris. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 7 In sum places is funde multiplie of Tinne. |