An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 482

An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Part 482

LAND, _s._ A clear level place in a wood.


O. E. _Lawnd_, mod. _Lawn_.


_Wyntown._


LAND, _s._ A hook in the form of the letter _S_, S. B.


LAND, _s._ The country; _on land_, _to land_, in the country.


_Acts Ja. II._


A. S. Su. G. _land_, rus.


~Land~, _s._ A house consisting of different stories, generally as including different tenements, S.


_Arnot._


~Land~ _of the leal_, the state of the blessed.


_Old Song._


_To_ ~Land~, _v. n._ To end; from the idea of terminating a voyage, S.


_Callender._


~Landbirst~, ~Land-bryst~, _s._ Breakers.


_Barbour._


Isl. _brestr_, Su. G. _brist_, fragor.


~Landimer~, _s._ A land-measurer.


_Skene._


A. S. _landimere_, properly a boundary of land.


~Landis-lorde~, ~Landslorde~, _s._ A landlord.


_Acts Ja. VI._


~Land-louper~, _s._ One who frequently flits from one place or country to another, S.


_Polwart._


Teut. _land-looper_, erro vagus.


~Land-man~, _s._ A proprietor of land.


_Bannatyne Poems._


Isl. _lender menn_, n.o.biles terrarum domini.


~Land-tripper~, _s._ The sand-piper, Galloway.


_Stat. Acc._


~Landwart~, ~Landart~, _adj._


1. Belonging to the country; as opposed to boroughs.


_Complaynt S._


2. Rustic, boorish, S.


_Ramsay._


A. S. _land_, rus, and _weard_, versus.


LANDERS. _Lady Landers_, the insect called the Lady-bird; as appropriated to the Virgin Mary, in Popish times called _Our Lady_, S.


_To_ LANE, _v. a._ To lie.


V. ~Layne~.


_Houlate._


LANE, _n._ A gift.


_Henrysone._


Su. G. _laan_, donum.


LANE, _adj._ Lone, alone.


_Dunbar._


_To_ LANG, _v. n._ To belong, to become.


Germ. _lang-en_, pertinere.