A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Outsted, -steid, -stead, n. [Stede n.] A settlement or farm lying at an extremity or on the fringes of an estate. Also attrib. with -housis. (In south-east Scotland and, once, Aberdeenshire.) —1598 Reg. Great S. 241/1.
Cum pratis, molendinum de Grenlawdene, cum privilegio aqueductus et lie damheid … domos et lie outsteidis cum toftis croftis et hortis ville de Grenelaw 1649 Berw. Nat. C. XV. 349.
The parish is sex mylls of lenth, gif the outsteids thereof be looked to; the furthest of the tounes thereof being thrie mylls the neirest way 1718 Stitchill Baron Ct. 180.
And but prejudice to the tennents of the outsteads to make use of green turff … for maintaining ther dykes but this no ways to be extended to the yards and dykes of the town nor even such of the outsteads wher stones can be easily had —attrib. 1622 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. II. 258.
Withe the peice weit land lyand as said is togidder with the outsted houssis
