Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Fewar, Fewer, n. Also: feuer. [f. Few n.] The tenant of a feu.(a) 1537 Antiq. Aberd. & B. II. 366.
Patrick Cheyne … fewar and proprietor of the landis of Lethnot 1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 531.
All and sindry fewaris, fermoraris, takkismen, … astrictit in payment of ony mallis … pertening to the bishoprik of Murray 1581 Ib. II. 407.
In respect that thay nor nane of thame ar nather frehalders, vassellis, subvassellis, bot ar fewaris only 1619 Highland P. III. 308.
Thay ar fewaris and vassallis to the Lord of Lorne thair superiour 1641 St. A. Presb. 3.
A fewar and ane eldar … on the Lords day in the kirkyeard did breake out in ill wordes 1671 Scot. Ant. XXVI. 194.
The fewares, udallers, tennendes, occupiers of the landis 1705 Corshill Baron Ct. 206.
The haill fewares … confessed guilty of … buying and selling of victual by eick and additione(b) 1564 Liber Scone 209.
Fewer of the landis abowe wrettin 1571 Acts (1597) § 38.
All … feweris … efter the decease … of thair superiours … sal hald thair fewes … of our Soverane Lord 1636 9th Rep. Hist. MSS. 24.
Reduction of the office called the Mairdome of Ross, for the releife of his maiesties subjects which are feweris from the Laird of Innes' oppressioun 1647 Dunferm. Kirk S. 23.
The great necessite that many in the landwart bothe gentleman herioters, fewers, and utheris hes of seats in the kirk