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Quotation dates: 1818-1841
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NATIVE, n. Sc. usage: the district of one's birth (Per. 1825 Jam.; ne.Sc., Ags., Dmf. 1963). Now only dial. in Eng.Lnk. 1818 A. Fordyce Country Wedding 136:
Supposed by a Young Lady on leaving her Native for America.Ayr. 1826 Galt Last of Lairds xxxix.:
Jenny 'll be packing up bag and baggage immediately, to gang away . . . to her native, somewhere awa doun about Paisley.Edb. 1828 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch vi.:
Wearying . . . to be home again to Lauder, which she said was her native.Abd. 1832 W. Scott Poems 124:
First we'll review the countra' loon, Wha leaves his native for the town.Dmf. 1841 S. Hawkins Poems I. 28:
Near the famed camp of Burnswark . . . which is my dear native where I do abide.
