† dascan, v. Sc. Obs.
Also daskan, dascon.
[perh. for descant.]
To ponder, consider.
| c 1579 Montgomerie Navigatioun 227 They daskand farther:—What if the Quene war deid? a 1600 J. Burel in Watson Coll. Sc. Poems II. 45 (Jam.) Than did I dascan with my sell, Quhidder to heuin or unto hell, Thir persouns suld pertene. 1632 Lithgow Trav. vii. 328 To dascon this, remarke, when they set land, Some this, some that, doe gesse, this Hill, that Cape. |