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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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LEEBRARY, n. Also ¶leebrie (Sc. 1830 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) III. 79); liberary. Sc. forms of Eng. library. See P.L.D. § 45. Hence liberarian, a librarian. [′lib(ə)rəre. The quadrisyllabic pron. is still heard.]Gsw. 1735 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1909) 442:
In reference to the liberary keeper of the university.Gsw. 1767 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1912) 241:
The office of bibliothicarius or liberarian in the university of Glasgow.Sc. 1823 Lockhart Reg. Dalton III. viii. i.:
Oxford's not a city at all, man — it's just a wheen Colleges planted thick thegither, wi' kirks, and leebraries, and observatories, and steeples, and what not.Abd. 1865 G. Macdonald Alec Forbes lxx.:
I heard o' a grit leebrary i' the north … whaur … a body cud lay his han's upon a buik whan he wantit it.