Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1721-1799, 1877, 1928
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FORESIDE, n. Also †for syd, †forside. The front or fore part of anything (I. and ne.Sc., Ags., Fif. 1953), esp. of a built-in bed (Sh., Ork. 1953). Rare or dial. in Eng. Sometimes used attrib. or in pl. Phr. on da foreside o', of time, a little before.Bnff. 1721 in J. F. S. Gordon Chron. Keith (1880) 98:
From the forside wall of the church to the middle of the church.Abd. 1742 Powis Papers (S.C.) 291:
For two days thaching and roping the for syd of Joshef Duncans hows.Sc. 1759 J. Justice Brit. Gardener's Cal. 308:
Endive . . . should now be laid upon the foresides of a sloping ridge.Ags. 1765 Scots Mag. (Nov.) 579:
Mrs Ogilvie . . . came down stairs with it, and set it down in the kitchen on the foreside of the press.Per. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Per. 121:
A projection of three inches, in the timber on the foreside.Sh. 1877 G. Stewart Fireside Tales 111:
Da dog cam ta da foreside o' da bed an' began ta whinge.Sh. 1928 Manson's Shet. Almanac 194:
He came alang on da foreside o' nine o'clock.
