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Slyre, Slyar, n. Pl. -is, also slyiris, -es, slyers, slyrris. [LG sleier, slijer fine linen, veil.] A fine linen or lawn. Also attrib. with Lane n.2, Land(e n.3 lawn. Chiefly pl. 1609 Edinb. Test. XLVI 25.
Tua steik of slyris at fyve pund the steik 1618 Edinb. Test. L 132 b.
Round slyris at v lib. the steik 1620 Edinb. Test. L 37b.
Ane steik of slyris at iiij lib. the steik 1620 Edinb. Test. L 272b, 273.
Fyve peis of slyres at fyve pundis the peis. … fyftene elnes of slyaris at tuentie tua schillingis the elne 1620 Edinb. Test. L 273b.
Slyar 1621 Acts IV 626/1.
And that no persoun whatsoeuir weare vpoun thair bodies tifneis cobwebe lanes or slyires 1622 Edinb. Test. LI 160.
Ane elne of slyaris pryce thairof xxiiij s. 1622 Edinb. Test. LI 264. 1623 Edinb. Test. LII 26b. 1663 Edinb. Test. LXXI 101b.
Slyersattrib. 1616 Edinb. Test. XLIX 185b.
Slyris lane at aucht pundis the steik 1622 Brechin Test. IV 62b.
Slyiris lane 1626–7 Glasgow Chart. II App. 581.
Slyrris land 1626–7 Glasgow Chart. II App. 583.
Slyrisland 1661 Acts VII 254/1.
Slyreland ilk hundreth ells
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