The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Couttis | 2 | 1567 (bote, convoy) |
| Couts | 1 | 1650 (cleanse) |