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Ȝerd, Ȝeird, Ye(i)rd, v.¹ Also: ȝeard, yeard, yird. P.p. also ȝyrdith. [Var. of Erd(e v.] tr. To bury.pres. a1538 Abell 32b.
He commandit … at nane suld ȝerd his bodye in detestatioun of his syn of ydolatre 1597 Misc. Spald. C. I 191.
Thow tuik the cluis from fourfeitt off it [sc. the calf] with ane peic of euerry bing, and causit [her] to yeird the saminep.t. c1650 Spalding I 43.
The laird and his sone … slew thrie of thir louns, bot craftelie … yirdit in ane hoill tua of thame 1658 Sc. Ant. IX 50.
That Besse Paton ȝeardit raw flesh & salt under the horse stallp.p. 1533 Gau 41 heading.
He sufert onder Poncio Pilat to be crucifeit to de and to be ȝeirdit 1533 Gau 65/30 (see Gau 65/31 in Ȝerd(e n.¹ 3 b). 1561 Inverness Rec. I 60.
That thair be nane yerdit within the kyrk bode without licence of the balyes c1564 Glasgow Test. II 10b.
I leef … my body to be ȝerdit within the sanctuary 1572 Hist. Clan Gregor I 66.
The saidis Allestyr and his son and brodyr ȝyrdith in Fortyrgill 1582–3 Perth Kirk S. in Spottiswoode Misc. 245.
Nicol Ronaldson … found ane dead new-born bairn yearded not an hand-breadth under the earth 1616 Anal. Scot. I 287.
Jasper Mill pyper yerdit in the kirk yaird 1643 Dunferm. Ann. 310.
Shoe hangit hersel, and was cairyed to the witche knowe and yerdit 1650 Stirling Ant. IV 155.
Farder it is reported that Johne Bachop, … gat in his midding yirdit like raw flesh with other crudities like unto the inmeat of an haggies c1650 Spalding II 345.
Thair wes found yirdit in Mr. Robert Farquharis cloiss tua fyne brassin peices 1656 Sc. N. & Q. 2 Ser. V 107.
Ye cannot thrive heer for they say ther was a cat yearded heer and her four feet upward a1578 Pitsc. (1728) 117.
One … offered … to let him see the place where the prince was yearded [Pitsc. I 272/18, endit, I. eirdit]