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Silo(u)ring, Sylring, (vbl.) n. Also: silerine, sylo(u)ring, sylerin(g, -ine, syilring, sylloring, -ering, -rein, cielering; celring; cylering. [Late north. ME and obs. north. e.m.E. sylorynge (1450-1), sillering (1558); Silour n. or v.]

1. A ceiling; wainscotting. 1494 Treasurer's Accounts I 238.
j^c estland burdis for the silouring of the chapell in Striueling 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 128.
For the payntting of the lyning of the chapell syloring 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 128.
Siloring 1566–7 Edinb. Old Acc. I 511.
For ane greitt geist to beir the sylouring 1575 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 42.
Syllering 1577 Treasurer's Accounts XIII 162.
For the sylering of the north galery in the palace of Halyrudhous 1578–9 Reg. Privy C. III 99.
The syleringis … being of fyne eistland wod, properlie mullerit and schorne in … curious work c1620 Sutherland Bk. II 339.
Cause paint about the inner walls of that ile or upon the silerine theroff [etc.] 1628–9 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 256.
The law galerie without to have ane fair border round about frome the sylring to the heid of the windowis … and the haill pannalis of the sylring to be layit over in ane fresche cullour 1628–9 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 256.
The pannallis … abone the hingingis round about the sylring to be fair wrocht with armes antikis and thair af settis conformit to the warkis of the sylring abone 1630 Gordon Geneal. Hist. 55.
The noblemen of Scotland ranked in order upon the sylerin of the rooff of the bodie of the church 1634 Wedderburn Gramm. 27.
Laquear, the sylring of an house 1640 Spalding I 333.
Thay … brak doun the fixt wark and sylringis 1642 Spalding II 216.
The bak of the hie altar, standing vpone the eist wall of Bischop Gawin Dumbaris iyll, alss heiche nar by as the sylring thairof 1648 Bk. Old Edinb. C. XX 80.
Sylerine

b. A canopy. = Silour n. 1 1534–5 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) I 127.
Bottis … to the bak of the syloring of the chapell aulter a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 37.
He … reparalit the samyn [queir] wyth glasing windowis, maid the daskis thairin and cyleringis aboue the altaris 1598–9 Edinb. B. Rec. V 369.
ij^c dur naillis to naill on the sylering on the heid of the pulpet 1619 Garden Elphinstoun 1951.
A tempill … With tables, celrings, seats [etc.]

c. transf. or fig. 1585 James VI Ess. 70.
Thow … Who bowed the waters so, as serue they shall For cristall syilring ouer thy house 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 181/634.
The starrie sylering 1581-1623 James VI Poems II 39/6.
The heauenis … Quhois syleringis all be maid of uatteris cleir

2. The action of providing with a ceiling or wainscotting.(a) 1581–2 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 232.
Twenty [blank] merk to be employet be the said Jhone on syllering with daillis of the over chalmer of the house 1597 Skipper's Acc. (Morton) 20a.
To the wrichtis for syllrein of our gonner rowme 1618 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 105.
Tymber for syllering of my Lord Erskynes chamber 1622 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 145.
Twa weikis werk … at the syllering of the torret heidis and wallis 1624 Glasgow B. Rec. I 342.
Sylloring 1644 Tulliallan Coal Wks. 51.
For … syllering of the meall garnall and putting ane rooff one the smythis house 1667 Kelso Baillie Ct. 36.
That he sall make his backhous sufficient by syllering thairof(b) 1666-74 Fraser Polichron. 271.
Lord Hugh finished the oakden loft in the Church of Wardlaw … but in cielering above was not entered uppon becaus of the death of the carpenter

3. attrib. With nail. 1617 Master of Works Accounts (ed.) II 42.
Sylring nailles 1618 Montgomery Mem. 280.
Fywe hundreth sylouring naillis … vii lib. 1656–7 Dumbarton Common Gd. Acc. 218.
Silouring [pr. syllowing] nails