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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Inset(t, n. [In adv.; Set n. and v.] a. = Inseat n. b. The inner room or main living-room of a farm house. (Also in later dial. as inset, -seat.) c. The permanent fittings installed in a building. —a.1615 Aboyne Rec. 234.
The half towne and lands of Belwood croftis outsettis insettis cottagis haill pairtis pendecles and pertinentis of the samen lyand within the parochine of Oboyne1659 Marischal Coll. Rec. I. 295.
All and haill the toun and lands … with their … tofts, crofts, outsets, insets, mosses, muirs 1662 Burnett Fam. P.
With … toftis, croftis, outsettis, insettis, annexes, connexesb. 1662 Highland P. III. 27.
[They] did put a pock under the bed that stands in the insett of the housec. 1677 Glasgow B. Rec. IV. 244.
That each persone building de novo … sall … doe it by stone work … without ony timber or daill except in the insett therof, quhilk is understood to be partitions, doors, windowes, presses and such lyk
