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Se-side, n. Also: see-, sey-, sie-, sea- and -syd(e, -syid. [ME and e.m.E. sæ-sid (c1205), see-syde (1387-8), sey-syd (c1400), see-side (1512).] The sea-side; the shore or the coast. Also, the seasyid of (a specific place).(1) a1400 Leg. S. xiii 123.
One a crage nere the se-syd a1400 Leg. S. xl 257.
He chosit a place, thare-in to duel, Be the se-syd in Galoway c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2444. c1475 Wall. ii 121. 1545 Douglas Corr. 163.
The ane army sall cum from Berwyk langis the se syd to Edinburgh(b) a1400 Leg. S. iii 25.
That he to the sey-syd suld fare 1503 Acts II 243/2.
That all tovnis & portis standand on the sey sid sik as Leth, Inuerkethin [etc.] … war ther commone gudis on the wallis of ther tovne to the sey sid with portis of lyme & stane 1529 Rec. Earld. Orkney 58.
Thai … slew thame at the sey-side … and leit the sea have thame away 1558-66 Knox II 66.
The north-west quarter upoun the sey-syde 1582 Old Ross-shire I 108.
Ilk sek full of corne brought to the schoir sey syde and delyverit to shipis 1596 Dalr. I 31/22.
In sum glenis or vallayes neir the sey syde(c) a1538 Abell 7b.
He fand ane certane fischaris on the see side 1549–50 Elgin Rec. I 101.
Accusit for the wrangus bying of fresche keling at the see syid(d) 1603–4 Dundee Treas. Acc.
For dychtine the lofftt and carying away the red to the seasyd c1641–54 J. Gordon in Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II 541.
2 myl from Brecklach is Larg upon the seasyd(e) 1597 Reg. Great S. 186/1.
Beginnand at the fute of the hill … at the sie syde, and thairfra passand northeist 1597 Prestwick B. Rec. 83.
Fra the sie syid sa fer as the bosum of the sie flowis & ebbis to the landis(2) 1602 Elgin Rec. II 97.
To the caue besyid the seysyid of Stotfauld in superstitious pilgrimage