A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Manurit, -ed, Manwrit, ppl. a. [e.m.E. manored (1551), -ered, -ured.] Of land: Under cultivation, cultivated, farmed, not waste or unused. predic. and attrib.(1) ?1549 Monro W. Isles (1884) 50.
Ane maine laiche ile, sa far as is manurit of it, aboundant in corne and gressing 1596 Dalr. I. 34/14.
Weil manured 1601 Milne-Home MSS. 74.
To leve thair said lands for the maist pairt unsawin and manwrit 1606 Highland P. III. 86.(2) 1562 Fam. Rose 236.
Outwith the dike at the westmest manurit grund of Craittinreith 1576 Reg. Great S. 753/2.
A teilit fure of manurit land 1605 Rec. Earld. Orkney 181.
For his part of the manwrit land 1621 Black Bk. Taymouth 352.
Outwith the … hillis and sicht of all infield and manurit landis 1681 Hunter Fam. P. 66.
Wher both heritours manured lands begins
