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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unsawin, Onsawin, p.p. [ME and e.m.E. vnsowe (Chaucer), vnsawe (c1400), vnsowen (a1513), vnsawn (?15 … ); Saw v.1] a. Of land: Not sown with seed. b. Of seed: Not sown.a. 1531 Bell. Boece II 229.
The landwart pepill … war brocht to sic poverte and heirschip that thair land was left unsawin and unlaubourit 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1594.
Now am I cum … To teill the ground that hes bene lang vnsawin 1601 Milne-Home MSS 74.
To leve thair said lands for the maist pairt unsawin and manwrit(b) 1551 Prot. Bk. R. Lumsdane 17.
The land … that is on sawin … to be sawin be the said Thomas as he thinkis causb. 1566 Reg. Privy S. V ii 101/1.
All gudis, geir, coirnis alsweile sawin upoun his propir landis … or unsawin 1591 Prot. Bk. J. Inglis 1 June.
[They] ourgaif all reycht … to the … Manis of Fyndlater with all pertinentis thairof baytht of cornis sawin & on sawin
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