Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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†FIRTH, n.2 A wood, wooded country. Only poet. in phrs. firth and fauld, ¶forest-firth.Ayr. 1796 Burns As I Stood . . . v.:
Now, looking over firth and fauld, Her horn the pale-faced Cynthia rear'd.Edb. 1798 H. Macneill Sc. Muse (1806) viii.:
Reckless, by stream, by firth and fauld Ye held your way.Sc. 1879 P. H. Waddell Isaiah xxxvii. 24:
I sal gang till his heighest neuk itsel, the forest-firth o' his Carimel.
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