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Quotation dates: 1720
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†ALRAN, adj. Consisting of alder trees.Sc. 1720 Caled. Mercury (15 Sept.):
Those Lands are admirably well accommodat with Hay, Grasing for black Cattle and Sheep, with Peat and Truf unexhaustible, has a Sufficiency of Oak, Alran and other natural Wood.
[Variant of Mid.Eng. alloren, Mod.Eng. aldern, id. See Aller.]
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