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Ned(d)er, a. Also: ned(d)ir, -yr(e, nadder, nadir, nidder. [Var. of Nether a.; also e.m.E. neder (1522).] Lower, under, in various senses of Nether a.(1) 1473 Douglas Chart. 102.
Five markis worth of the neddir thrid part of Awmernes 1505 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 20.
Ane pese of errabill land that lyis beneth the Magdalenne corse onne the nedder pairt 1512 Dunferm. B. Rec. I. 360.
Neddir end 1534 Selkirk B. Ct. MS. 188 b (30 Dec.).
To the nedder borne end c 1556 Melrose Reg. Rec. III. 242.
The neddersyd(2) c1420 Wynt. i. 1189.
A land cald Nedyre Sytha 1453 Misc. Spald. C. V. 49.
For dychting of the Nedyr Kyrk gate 1458 Exch. R. VI. 452.
Terre de Ovyr, Middil et Neddirardis 1494–5 Treas. Acc. I. 212.
Be Johne of Maxwell of Nedder Pollok 1531 Glasgow Prot. IV. 29.
Fra the Nedder Barresȝet to the brigg 1559 Misc. Wodrow Soc. 71.
Till they came to the Neder Bow 1561 Reg. Dunferm. 432.
The Nidder Grange of Kinghorne 1577 Reg. Morton I. 109.
Maister James Makgill of Rankeloure Nedder, Clerk of Register 1641 Acts V. (1817) 386/2.
Nadder Airdis(3) 1532 Selkirk B. Ct. 161 b (30 Apr.).
That James of Murray tuk Nedder Jame Turnbull ky for borrowgait of Robert Turnbull Ib.
That Jame Turnbull Nedder vas borrowis for Robert Turnbull(4) 1512 Dunferm. B. Rec. I. 184.
In the neddir toun croftis 1513 Doug. viii. iii. 124.
Thai wester partis … Quhilkis ar bedyit with the Neddir See 1521 Misc. Spald. C. V. 293.
Baith upyr and neder croft 1552 Elgin Rec. I. 116.
The neder salkis, aittis 1580 Reg. Privy C. III. 320.
The over hall of the neddir bailye 1634 Maxwell Mem. I. 252.
Neddir baillie —(b) 1542 Reg. Cupar A. II. 181.
Maistir Alexander M'Brek for the nadir thoun(5) 1570 Leslie 101.
[They] under myndit the neddir sole of the yett of Dumbartane 1579 Reg. Privy C. III. 319.
Garnesit with over and neddir bandis of irne(6) 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 648/1.
In the auld inis in the nedder chalmer Ib./2.
Ouer kitching … nedder kitching [etc.] 1567–8 Crim. Trials I. i. *497.
In the nedder house under the Kingis chalmer … within the said laich house 1570 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I. 190. 1580 Reg. Privy C. III. 320.(7) 1513 Doug. vii. xii. 162.
Rasyt … From the dyrknes of neddir Hellis nycht(8) fig. 1513 Doug. i. iii. 100. Comm.
Eolus, the neddyr part of raison