A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Lerio(u)n, Lerron, n. (Some animal: F. liron the grey dormouse, F. levron a small greyhound, and Lepron, have all been conjectured; ? F. alérion a large sort of eagle, also a kind of heraldic eagle, perh. by misunderstanding of the F. word.) —a1500 Henr. Fab. 906 (Ch.).
The mertrik, with the cunning and the con, The bouranbane, and eik the lerioun [H. lerion, B. lerron]
