austuce

[Fr. astuce; Sp. & Port. astucia = subtilty.] Subtilty. [ASTUCE.] "They lay at the vacht lyik the ald subtill doggis bydand quhil cons pir at i one or dis sensi one suld ryes amang you, than be there austuce the i furnest vitht money baith the parteis."-Complaynt of Scotland , p. 135,