A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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(Mid-,) Mydland, n. [Mid a.; Land n.1 8.] The middle portion of a tenement, between the Foreland and the Bakland. —1476 Peebles B. Rec. I. 181.
Walter Blacklokis land was na brader na it awch to be, nother in forland na in mydland, nor ȝit on the bak syd
