c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2214 Twa thousand be tale he titely comaundis, Of wele buskid bernns in brenys & platis.

c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 16 That buskit belly blind Dings dounuards ay the duchtiest.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 220 Love..careth not for the world's busked and plaistered offers.

1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 334 Nae joy her bonie buskit nest Can yield ava.

1850 United Presbyterian Mag. Feb. 74/1 The sermon, in the pulpit services of many, is the busked and tricked-out idol, which all are expected to worship.

1876 H. Syme Local Musings 94 An' white-washed hut, as clean's a buskit bride.

1991 Poetry Ireland Rev. 31 20 He's a wirthless wooer..Trystin awa the bonnie buskit flouer.

1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose 207 Yeelding to him as cunning Anglers do with Fishes.., but really to catch him with their busked hook.

1724 A. Ramsay Health 49 Some ambitious Thoughts I have, Which will pursue me to my Grave, sic busked Baits they lay.

1884 J. Rankine Law Land-ownership Scotl. (ed. 2) App. xi. 783 A case in which foul hooking by dragging a busked fly-hook across a pool, was held not to be fishing ‘by means of rod and line with artificial fly’.

1911 S. R. Crockett Lady of Hundred Dresses ix. 216 A lass from Dunfermline does not need to jump at the first man she meets like a burnt trout at a well buskit fly!

1806 Port Folio 11 Jan. 12/1 When a young lady wore..a good hoop properly busked, which formed a strong cuirass about her.

1859 J. Grant Hollywood Hall viii. 40 A plump, jolly dame, about five-and-thirty, who looked as if she had grown up in her well-busked boddice.

1911 M. McMillan Child & State iii. 39 The busked and banded little victim of the whalebone and flannelette mode.

2005 J. L. Severa My Likeness Taken 72 The shape of the busked corset is clearly the form over which the dress was fitted.