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West part, -parte, -pairt, n. Also: weste-, vest-, wast-, vast-, wost-, vost- and -pa(i)rt. [West adj. and Part n. 4.] The western part of an area or country. Also pl.(a) a1400 Leg. S. ii 70.
Syne Nero In the weste partis has lattyn hym [sc. Paul] go, And prechit thare in landis sere 1400 MacRae Early Sc. Texts No. 7.
West part 14… Reg. Paisley 375.
West parte 1527 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 91.
We ordand four men to waik … and or thai pas to bed to warne Jhone Haw ester, James Muthag in the over part and George Mychelhill in the vest part 1529 Dundee B. Laws 546.
The stane dyke … to be biggit … ewyn vp north in lavell to the hed dyk [etc.] … and this on the west pairt; and as to the est pairt [etc.] 1538 Grey Friars 36.
Land, liand in the vest part 15… Newbattle Chart. MS (Reg. H.).
Ane pec land nixte the religios men of Newbottill at the vest part of the samyn(b) 1460–70 Innes Sketches 506.
Our marchis that was than betuix the tua bwrnis held the burne wpe to the woud of Kyngude as of the wast part and than was wythin ws and owr baronry 1556 Crail B. Ct. 14b.
Land lyand … betuyx the land of Jhone Thomsoun one the vast part, the land off Jhone Ȝowll one the eyst part [etc.] 1595 Bamff Chart. 140.
[On behalf of the said John Scrimgeour resigned in the king's hands his] vast pairt of the landis of Ardormie 1667 Rothesay B. Rec. 138.
Concerning ane peice of grund that lyis upone the wast part of his yaird(c) 1518 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 49.
We ordand iiii men in ilk towne end to wak … Jhone Jhonstoun in the wost part 1526–7 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 282.
Ane tenement of land … betuix the landis of Thomas Malcum one the wost part the landis of … Robert Valcar on the est part [etc.] 1532 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 124.
Vost partpl. a1578 Pitsc. II 184/28.
The king and the quein maid the Erle of Lennox luvetennand of the vest pairtis