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  1. Inks n. pl. a rich ink ground. Eighty acres . . . consisted of a rich sea marsh, or , as we call them here, almost a true level, . . . about 4 or 5 acres, . . . 16 inches lower, being a younger marsh, and nothing net in the inks of the Cree. Extent 240 acres or thereby of carse land of excellent quality, together 
  2. Orry n.[Eaglesham] consists chiefly of two rows of houses, with a public green of 15 acres — the orry 
  3. Pennyland n. minister should have an equivalent of these acres and grass of one pennyland or £42 Scots rent. In acres, consequently a farthing is two acres, and an octo is one, or a boll's sowing. In the western contain about 8 or 9 acres. As a rule the townships nearest the seaboard have the fewest acres, viz., 4 acres to 1d. land. the pennylands included the towmall land only and as the runrig lands grew up 
  4. Contigue adj.These lands consist of about 128 Scots acres lying all quite contingue. Four [seats 
  5. Unfeued ppl. adj. acres of the unfeued land.  
  6. Davach n. oxengates of 13 acres each, or 416 acres of arable land.  
  7. Stuck-run-ways adv. more than a hundred acres, is sub-divided, stuck-run-ways, among five or six tenants.  
  8. Boons n. pl.“Boons” means acres or land. “Ye've mair boons nor his.” Weel, he maybe hiz some richt on's side 
  9. Husbandland n. and Half a Husband Land in Newton . . . The lands consist of about 100 acres. There belonged to the “twenty-six acres where plow and scythe may gang.”  
  10. Paffle n.The Lurg poffle and 2½ acres of the other third of Edenkill. At that Time Andrew Watson possesst Acres, lying near the Village of . The colliers paffles, presently set at 91. sterling yearly rent places are parcelled out into small , or farms, few of which are above 30 acres each. . . . Some of the 
  11. Baggie n.3Twa acres or thereby o' aits, an' a wheen baggies, an' twa-three rows o' tatties. A , a Swedish 
  12. Loggage n.1 more Acres about that Estate, as good Soil in its Nature, yea many better, have been swarded, dug up 
  13. Cot n. acres of land each, together with a house, yard, and liberty of pasturing their cows in an adjacent made the best of farm hands as they grew up. The Cottown of Stravithy, containing 140 acres, or 
  14. Freedom n. occupied by feuars. . . . They have used to hold what has been called a , consisting of four or five acres acres of arable land.  
  15. Stripe n.1 country. 60 acres of planting, consisting, in a great degree, of stripes, as they are called. Crowned 
  16. Fey v.2, n.1 burgesses-acres, and what is called the feelands which are understood as pertinents of these burgess-acres 
  17. Haurdly adv. map: Gin meisurement by acres were aa, it wadna be warth a thocht (an's haurdly, I ken, gien a thocht 
  18. Ure n.4 fourteen acres. Two or three acres may be considered a fair average. Each merk is divided into eight ures 
  19. Outfield n. lively out-fiel sermon. Long-Newton contains about 600 Scots acres, of which nearly 240 acres are outfield lands; the other 360 acres are all arable, and, with the exception of a part of the infield 
  20. Cas Crom n. acres of arable land each and the use of horses without any augmentation of the rent.  
  21. Acre n.. Almost every householder along with his house, rents from one to two acres of land. These are locally denominated an acre. The fields, known by the neighbours as "the acres".  
  22. Outrun n., v. crofter has exclusive rights. Twenty-five acres of arable, and a small bit of outrun for sheep. Shu, to be eaten on land or carted off, out-run available. Croft extends to 2 acres 35 poles arable, 32 
  23. Aller n. . . . the Houses, Yards, Allerbog and Acres of Land in Causey-end of Coupar, which belonged to John 
  24. Burgh n.1 weakest ground to equal the best borough-acres. Smaller proprietors who posses portions of land called borough-acres. . So far as Edinburgh is concerned, under an Act of 1874, petty customs and duties were, consisting of about six English acres of the most inferior sort of land in the crofts and borrowdales of 
  25. Portioner n., they cultivate the small pieces of property, of from one to six acres of land. There are about 60 of, amounting to 24 imperial acres, is shared among twenty smaller proprietors, called here, as in other parts 
  26. Swaird n., v. smoothed it finely, Sir. You have put a good swaird upon it. As many, yea more Acres about that Estate, as 
  27. Particate n. Newhaven with the whole houses, acres, and particatts of land belonging thereto. One particate of burgh 
  28. Pleuch n., v.. The number of , in the hands of the tenants, is about 141½, — reckoning 13 acres of arable land to many such cottars are necessary on a farm of fifty or sixty acres, or one ploughgate. The assessment is laid on by the ploughgate, which in some cases is estimated at 45 acres, and in others, perhaps at. In 1833 however a new Act of Parliament was obtained . . . when it was understood that sixty acres more suitable definition of the ploughgate of 104 acres would be that it was the arable land pertaining' auld ploo airns. I will suppose that one ploughland, or sixty Scots acres, is too small. This country ploughland of 104 acres, measuring upwards of 130 statute, approaches very closely to the Northumbrian hide Kinput, six Miles West of Edinburgh: one Hundred Acres thereof inclosed and subdivided, each Plough Ramahaggan, one fourth Pleugh of New Park of near 20 Acres. Our factor must know, or ought to know, that ten faughings of similar extent, in all about seventy-three acres. In its present improved state, the 
  29. Cottery n. view, has broken down a farm, on a remote part of his estate, into cottaries of two acres arable. The 
  30. Effeir v. hotel of approximately 31 acres. To be made, given and granted to the said provost, baillies . . . in 
  31. Merse n., consisting of 41 acres, 1 rood, and 18 falls, of arable land, and 33 acres, 2 roods, and 10 falls, of merse 
  32. Torie n., v. turned over as soon as possible after frosty weather. Many acres of corn in Banff and Aberdeen shires 
  33. Saw v.1 with the third crop. About 30 Acres sown off last Spring with Clover and Rygrass seeds. The sweepings frequently what is termed . About Five Acres of the Nursery, sown down with the White Crop of last year 
  34. Tenement n., v. tenement, had a natural antipathy to stairs. Six acres of land was the share which fell to each of these acres, equally amongst forty beneficiaries, who were henceforth termed “tenementers,” each one of whom 
  35. Meedow n. Lauderdale, including some arable patches, . . . 99,870 acres”. It may be proper to remark that the term 
  36. Moray n. of stone, generally of a dark brown colour. In the provincial dialect, this is termed . 24 acres of 
  37. Pleasance n. as they say ye hae. Deliver them from the evil eye that grudges at their pleasaunce. Two Acres and 
  38. Skelp n.2, v.2 so. That would still leave Sir Tim with around 20,000 acres which is still a fair skelp of land. Wi 
  39. Seg n.1, v.1, for several yards round, an entire blank, or nearly so. The driest end (about two acres) of a field of seven acres, which sloped gently to an open ditch, always “segged” the oats which grew upon it 
  40. Merk n. and measured in acres. The term Pennyland . . . in Schetland . . . marks the quality, and according to two acres. Every merk again consists of so much arable ground, and of another part which is only fit for pasturage, but the arable part alone varies in extent from less than one to two acres. How of an acre to fourteen acres. Two or three acres may be considered a fair average. Each merk is 
  41. Burgage n. its burgage lots of land, or borough acres. Abolition of feudal and burgage tenure in Scotland. Kain 
  42. Clay n., v. . . . from five to six acres of Ground in the Clay-half of Montrose. Whiteberry croft was bounded on the 
  43. Intoun n., adj. around the houses. All the manure was placed upon it. Let in small lots from 1 to 30 acres of boll 
  44. Haugh n. two acres, which a brook of some consequence . . . had left upon one side of the little glen. Through bleaching. But an auld man aye thinks lang O' the haughs he played amang. About 108 Scots acres, of a rich 
  45. Ling n.2 ling growing on it. Half a dozen mountains, and a few thousand acres of the worst moss and ling in 
  46. Ruit n.1, v.1 root, him. A field of 25 acres of excellent Swedes was pulled, rooted, and topped.  
  47. Infield n. of Prestwick extends to about 200 acres, but in point of quality the same do consist of two distinct 
  48. Aiblins adv. in frequent use now. It's aiblins daft, this ploiter o pursuit owre bitter acres whaur the braith 
  49. Bluiter n.1, v.1Wullie Gledstane and his three acres and a coo'll end like the rest o' Willie's cantrips in a 
  50. Hypothec n. right of hypothec for the rent of land . . . exceeding two acres . . . let for agriculture or pasture 
  51. Latch v., n.3 bit latchie at harvest time last year, and this week we still had 40 acres of much needed straw lying 
  52. Slump n.1, v.1 . . .; but half-acres, or thereby, are set forth in a fine slumpy manner. The Commission slumped the matter 
  53. Claught v., n. nature gae her; Nae claughts o' gear, nae acres wide. If your wife can lay her hands on a claught o' ony 
  54. Cavel n.1, v. shade, . by the east or the west, the Sheriff sets off the two first acres for the heir, and the third 
  55. Stook n.1, v. baingied 'm amo' the stooks. The winning win' of a grand hairst time was steering amang the stooks. Acres years of hard trauchle to bring in the acres and it seemed it had been too much for the man - not long 
  56. Croft n. during winter. Lime and manure were unknown, except on a few acres of what is called , which was never 
  57. Sture adj. son. Winds blaw snell Owre acres stare As Winter's sel'. Wi' an eldritch, stoor, “quaick, quaick 
  58. Ox n. became the equivalent of 13 and a husbandland of 26 Scots acres. James Bain poss of thrie oxgait lands 
  59. Siclike adj., n., adv. about two acres of ground, lying to the east of said Mansion house. To hold their several offices 
  60. Hog n.1, v.1 about 700 acres, mostly pasture ground, and part of which is esteemed the best hog-fence in Gala water of the lambs usually sold fat have been hogged, and kept on to be sold when fat. Hundreds of acres 
  61. Kip n.1, v.2 with the church lands of Pentland, four acres of meadow near that town, with the kips, and eight sowmes 
  62. Mains n. pl. acres. . . . There is a dwelling-house and mains lately built on the farm, with a water thrashing 
  63. Oor n. we'd stop on the wye owre and look up at the acres o starns in the bricht silent alaneness o that 
  64. Policy n., planting, and policy. 155 acres of land or thereby, exclusive of roads, strips of policy , and stances of 
  65. Feu n., originally let in small acres. In the confusion, many inferior feus became distinct feudal holdings. It publick roup. He feued from the town 150 acres. He purchased a field near the town for £1200, and it 
  66. There adv. EXTENDING TO 9.3 ACRES OR THEREBY. I bought a field with my redundancy money. It was described in the Purchase Agreement as 'thirteen acres or thereby'. To Warrand, Acquit and Defend them therefrae at all 
  67. Inpit v., n. loadning for Mr Thomsons Cargoe of meall being 840 Bolls input. The input cropt of forty acres of land 
  68. Lot n., v. falls. Each of these freemen possesses what is called a or , containing about four acres of arable 
  69. Furr n., v. low Berwickshire. It takes a firm hand and lots of power to turn a fur there. The cotters' acres, an' acres braid o' rig and fur. Though they had pistols in their holsters, soiled butt coats on their backs 
  70. Maybe adv., n. seeven when I got to the manse. “Is there muckle o't, John?” “Maybes foure acres.” Keeping behind the 
  71. Yokin vbl. n. Work in the Spring being an Acre at a Yoking, or two Acres a-day. The hire of a plough, with a man and 
  72. Ell n. sixty ells of law. The extent of the glebe is 10 acres, 3 roods, 17 falls, 4 ells, Scotch measure 
  73. Soum n., v.1 2 acres 35 poles arable, 32 poles outrun, together with share in the common grazing; souming one cow 
  74. Syver n., v. crashing through the roof? No. Do I miss the embarrassment of having acres of fallen blossom stop up all 
  75. Hill n., v.1 and fifty-seven crofters have at present by this calculation 140 acres each between arable and hill proprietors of burgess-acres. His niece did the work of the farm in great part; she harrowed and went to the an' hill. Some hundred of acres of uncultivate ground, of a fine natural mould and bottom, and well 
  76. Brither n., v. of the burgh. Whiles we'd stop on the wye owre and look up at the acres o starns in the bricht 
  77. Craig n.1 . . . with a glebe of about 4 acres of good land, and what is called coal, that is, free coal, except 
  78. Monie adj., n. I sall see him nevermair. Look at it on the map: Gin meisurement by acres were aa, it wadna be 
  79. Peerie adj. tenants holding farms from 10 to 50 acres. WHIMBREL ( ) SHET: Peerie Whaap or Tang Whaap ... In parts of 
  80. Place n., v. servants and villagers. The Place, or Home Farm, contains about 200 acres. The front seat in the north 
  81. Whin n.1 bouls. The whole of the fences on thirty acres of land are all whin bouls. The filling up the holls of 
  82. Lea n.1, adj., consisting of about Fifty-four Scots Acres, are in good Heart, having been only once cropt, after Six Years first ley fur. A Park about 11 or 12 Acres Ground … in which there is a very good Meadow, and the rest 
  83. Flee v.1, n.1 about four Acres Ground. Saxteen brakfasts, forbyes fleein' cuppies, an' antrin drams in atween times 
  84. Pendicle n.. The other possessors of land are the 46 pendiclers, who are generally tradesmen, and hold a few acres 
  85. Stent n.3, v.3, garden, pigeon-house, offices and slent [ ] in the haugh [Inveresk]. These Fifteen Acres of Arable Land 
  86. Ruch adj., adv., n., v. . . . comprising: Arable . . 156.57 acres, Rough . . .73 acres. Thanks to Vardon having pulled into the rough, the 
  87. Bonny adj., adv., n. penny fur dis een. A bonny penny she'll be for books. He was an honest, kindly man too and his acres 
  88. Coo n.1 coo's gress to ca' his ain at the end o't. Many holdings under 10 acres being formed as "cow's hash 
  89. Gaw n.1, v. dikes that run through the whole field. The field of nine acres entirely moss, and in some parts above 
  90. Tirr v.1, n.1 substance being first removed. Having a sand pit, extending to ten acres, filled in and the “tirr” or top 
  91. Ferm n.1, v. Monikie, a farmstead, named . A farm-steid fu' o' kintra stir, Wi' acres braid o' rig and fur. The ends 
  92. Hallan n. scornfully she answer'd him, Begone, you hallanshaker. Tho I were Laird of Tenscore Acres, Nodding to Jouks 
  93. Plowter v., n. thaw! It's aiblins daft, this ploiter o pursuit owre bitter acres whaur the braith micht freeze 
  94. Tramp v., n. into the tramp-coil. 6 acres Hay, in tramp cole, at New Pitsligo. The turning, the coling, recoling 
  95. Mail n.1, v.1 , of an Opening, consisting of a very few Acres of Moor-ground, in the very Heart of his largest and 
  96. Mett n., v. reported it to be 46 acres, 2 roods and 13 falls. We hear that upon the inspection of the weights and 
  97. Ruid n. tract of more than six-and-twenty Scottish acres still bears the name of . I'll let you see that for 
  98. Wuid n., v. wasna wuddet or flagget. The mantlan ivy cling To wooding in the grove. The wooding of two acres of 
  99. Link n., v.1 nearly 500 acres unavailable for cultivation. The links of green pasture by the streams were dotted with 
  100. Winter n.1, v.They'd seven acres with five kye staandin on da winter-baand. Recollecting that she had not laid 
  101. Rig n.1, v.1' dark-blue pat-dyed rig-and-fur . . . worsted stockings. Acres braid o' rig and fur. Rigg an' fur acres, 3 roods, 38 falls, and 859 decimal parts, imperial measure, of fine fertile land, called the Lang 
  102. Teind n.1, v.1 field before the corns are stacked. The lnd called the Prior Acres is now in the hands of various in the teind-sheaves from the prior-acres. If the titular failed to do so, the owner himself, in 
  103. Hag v.1, n.1 from that time a hag of nearly 30 acres can be cut down every year continually. This management will 
  104. Sheuch n., v. acres a day. Roses, which arrived from the nursery in the middle of January and were carefully sheuched 
  105. Wirk v., n. the grudging acres of Buchan. the ilka day, an sent doon ben toom rakes o hutches inbye gaein ginn 
  106. Lay v., n.1 fine Sclaited House with Five Acres and a half of Land, laying at the Gallow-Green near the Gibbet. As also two Acres and a Half of Land with Houses, Barns and Barnyards lying at the back of the Crackling 
  107. Moss n., v. Napier of Blackstone has planted about 15 acres of moss bent, that is, the stuff left after the peat is Moss. The Solway-flow contains 1300 acres of very deep and tender moss. If dung cannot be found, moss 
  108. For prep., conj. braw sonsey lass. “Eh,” said little Elsie, . . . “eh, for whaten a lee.” Acres, ye ax. Fir sic a 
  109. Pease n. auld hens to cackle about? There is about 4 acres in bear-leave and pease-leave lying lea. Pease 
  110. Shot n.1, v., interj. Acres in all. The said shot of ground called . The grounds were then possessed in different shots by 
  111. Trauchle v., n. breers that werenae his ain. Isa said it had taken seven years of hard trauchle to bring in the acres 
  112. Whin n.2; and the quality of the land here can be judged by the acres of whin and broom whose golden flowers 
  113. Grue v.1, n.1, adj. that fair gars me grue. At one extreme, they're forcing tepid porridge such as Two Thousand Acres of 
  114. Jouk v., n.1' burn Jinks through its banks o' cowslips, Wi' mony a jouk an' turn. Tho I were Laird of Tenscore Acres 
  115. Raik v., n. consisting of about 509 English acres, part arable and part stock-rake. The stock has had a stinted 
  116. Bonnet n. lairds were men who generally got their forty or sixty acres in the natural state and at a nominal rent 
  117. Laich adj., adv., n.1, v.1 fields that have been taken in, either from mosses or marches, go under the general name of . 80 acres 
  118. Ower prep., adv., adj., v., n. the Ambulance-men, Whiles we'd stop on the wye owre and look up at the acres o starns in the 
  119. Saut n., adj., v. well as to make a new acquisition of 50 acres, Mr. Erskine of Mar began a new bank or wall. Syne saft 
  120. Wey n.1 stop on the wye owre and look up at the acres o starns in the bricht silent alaneness o that 'oor and 
  121. Horse n.1, v. of about 21 acres. Your correspondent's threshing mill is . . . misplaced. . . . if the horse-gang 
  122. Sea n. , or . Thirty acres have of late been regained from the of the basin at Old Montrose. It is the 
  123. Scots adj., n. Law as we have since known it. Such a Garden should not be less than three Acres. A crop of acres, or 523 English. One and a half quarter of wheat per Scotch acre (the Scotch acre being one-fifth 
  124. Fa v., n.1 the “faa”. All and whole these seven Acres and eighteen Falls of the said Alexander Campbell's 
  125. Rive v., n.. Our ancestors who “reeve in” broad acres of moorland. She's like the wifie's pink e'e't tatties 
  126. White adj., n.1, v.1 land. The Farm of Stobswood, consisting of about 1300 English acres, the greatest part of which is 
  127. Kirk n.1, v.1 collected on Sundays, and the rent of 11 acres of land, called , amounting annually to about £25 Sterling. Near the Craigs is a piece of land, called the , extending to about five acres. And there it [a rock 
  128. Half n., adj., v.,” I had been ingloriously defeated. The remainder of the parish, amounting to 24 imperial acres, is 
  129. Toun n., v. begun to toddle about the town. In one town of land, as it is called, consisting of about 60 acres, and 
  130. Tak v., n. for lang leases. We've taen a craft wi' ae coo's maet. Robert McIntosh, “took” thirty-eight acres of 

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  1. Cote- n.Sax acres toun land and sax acres of coit yard land Two acres of land … with the coatyeards  
  2. Transmitable adj.Burgesses acres … are not transmitable to any but to a burges  
  3. Unwood n.[Two acres of land] with haill mose muire wood and unwood gress pastureage [etc.]  
  4. Quarrel-heuch n.Vnacum lie querrell et querrellheuche earundem Querrel-heuchis In 4 acres of land of Arnotshauch 
  5. Reed n. on ther inhabitants of the burgh, borrow reeds, and acres therto belonging  
  6. Stayrig n. ane stayrig upon the auld bounds of the said acres  
  7. Segy adj. acres at] Seggywellisheuid The landis of Segidene The … pece of land callit the Seggy Warde Seggieden 
  8. Snuk n. a fyr Four acres of land in the Snook of Berwick Dwnottar, a snuk within the se  
  9. Alangis prep.The quhilk [acres] sal be … layd to and allangis the said Lord Erskynnis propirte For ilk ladinet 
  10. Plat n.4 saids kirks commonlie called the kirkyard [They were assigned] plats [of 12000 acres each in the 
  11. Coatland n. ȝere iij caponis The acres, ruidis, and outsettis and coitlandis of the said mainis Thrie husband 
  12. Mukit ppl. adj. acras 5 acres of his best mucket land All grounds that ar laboured ar either craft land, that is 
  13. Tounland n. The lands of Newsteid … conteinand sax acres toun land and sax acres of coit yard land That 
  14. Immediat adj., contigew and immediate of the est syde of the twa acris set … til Wil Mason Tuay [acres of land] lyand 
  15. Jelous v. being jealoused here, is mortgaging his own fortune, and buying 80,000 acres there He is so much 
  16. Red ppl. adj. tenandis falt in othyr red land he sal er hym als mykyl quyt land [3 acres of land lying upon] the red feld Occupiers of the acres … to lay over the red ley riven out be them After the corns ar win … you 
  17. Accress v. tempest did acres And na wais lykin to grow les Quhilkis sowmes of money … hes now accrest and growne up 
  18. Infeild n. Off infeild nynscore fyftein [acres] and of outside called the Mure above sax score aikers That no 
  19. Strinde n.2 throu the herber till othir gardynnis … till water thame in somer Strinde [Two acres, and the said 
  20. Famell adj., n. uther famell his predecessour The said acres to be tailyeitt to the aires maill, quhilks failyeing to 
  21. Pound-land n. oxengate makes a pound land: so then, eight oxengate are a forty-shilling land 13 acres [are in] an 
  22. Mettar n. the warde and ane mettar And siclik ordanis the expens maid on ws and the mettaris [Three acres of 
  23. Lot n.1 nixt the clerks aiker for his secund lott 1000 acres for the city of Perth, divided into 99 lotts, 9 acres to a lott All who take lotts in our toun are oblidged to build houses thereon within two yeirs 
  24. Lykin v. crovnit as Thre hundyre speris to lykyn [ . likkyn] or ma Off Fyffe Bot ay the tempest did acres, And na 
  25. Hauch n.1 ane vther litle hauch of the forsaid landis Tua [acres] tane out of the est end of the Kemphil haucht 
  26. Occupyar n. and heritouris thairof [58 acres] quhairof the occupiaris is nocht weill knawin Donald McPhetris 
  27. Mettag n. mettage of the acres That James Adam micht be admittit to serve in the said office of mettage Gret falt 
  28. Outset n.1 existunt The acres ruidis and outsettis and coitlandis of the said mainis It is statut that Thomas 
  29. Non-entré n. entry silvyr [of the said 3 acres] I … grantis me to haif ressauit … compleit payment for the retour 
  30. Outfeild n. six acres of land All and whole the outfield lands of Buist's pound-land called Pitmunȝies The 
  31. Sike n. akiris northe fra the castell sike The syke of Wintownmos on the south Eight acres … bounded by the 
  32. Pertinent n., adj. said two acres France wald desyre ws and our realme to be ane province or pertienent into tham My 
  33. Telin vbl. n. [ (1597) 98b, teeling] … salbe … punissit … to the deid Payment of my acres teland this yeir That na 
  34. Plenis v. gudis [Two acres of land] plenist with seid and cattell to teyl thaim wyth Aucht oxingang of land 
  35. Rin-rig n., adv. Dawesone] The said towne & landis … lyand all rynrig with vtheris [Two acres] rynrig cum the 1 akyr, the 
  36. Tailȝe v. The said acres to be tailyeitt to the aires maill, quhilks failyeing to the eldest famele but 
  37. Tele v. and scheir Of Rutuly the hilly knollis hie [Two acres of land] plenist with seid and cattell to teyl 
  38. Rig n. the discontiguity could not … make the rigg cease to be a pertinent of the said two acres The wat rigs that lyes west of the mansione hous when they salbe dykit The riggs roods tenements acres and 
  39. Lone n.1 brecks in his ground and damnifies his gras and loines [5 acres of his best mucket land lying] bewest 
  40. Tol n. houses, tofts, acres] lie riggis, assyse aill et thole of the same Portu, statione et navali hospitio de 
  41. Mure n. infeild nynscore fyftein [acres], and of outside called the mure above sax score aikers With priviledge 
  42. Properté n. commone The quhilk [acres] sal be … layd to and allangis the said Lord Erskynnis propirte Propirete Or 
  43. Part n., adv. be acre daill and pairts to euerie pairt thre acres To wyn fewall faill and dovat in the commoun of wittnesses That the discontiguity could not … make the rigg cease to be a pertinent of the said two acres 
  44. Sesin n.-land, or more, which they thought extended to 27 acres of land Pro uno bove dicto sesing ox, dato 
  45. Mar adj. to be haldin in mair reuerence Bot ay the tempest did acres, And na wais lykin to grow les, Bot 
  46. Tend adj., n. meitt, the ane on the teynd-know [etc.] In place of the victual they should have had of the teind-acres 
  47. Rif v. commounteis The Moor of Dunnikeir … he might rive out and labour three acres thereof for his own use That 
  48. Richt n. get also the ridges and acres … to carry home with him [He was imprisoned] for deteaning and keiping 
  49. Sted n.1 Ade [two acres and a half] The offyce of maistrischip off our ward off Yarow lyand wythin our saide 
  50. Lay v.1 fyre to the dungeon To lay fyre to the upstanding craig at the greine 2 dayes The quhilk [acres] sal 

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