Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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†OUTSIGHT, n. Movable goods used out of doors, one's stock of implements, animals, etc. (Sc. 1808 Jam.). Gen. attrib. in phr. outsight plenishing (Sc. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 692). See also Insicht.Sc. 1730 Acts of Sederunt (1790) 294:
If corns, cattle, outsight or insight, plenishing or moveables of any sort, shall be under the factory.Abd. 1762 Abd. Journal (17 May):
All Kinds of Outsight Plenishing; particularly, a Number of good Horses, Cows and Calves of the best Kinds; and all the necessary Implements for a Farm.Abd. 1768 A. Ross Works (S.T.S.) 156:
I have outsight and insight and credit.Sc. 1773 Erskine Institute iii. viii. § 18:
In what is called outsight plenishing or moveables without doors, the heirship may be drawn of horses, cows, oxen; and of all the implements of agriculture, as ploughs, harrows, carts, etc.Sc. 1814 Scott Waverley xv.:
Their whole goods and gear, corn, cattle, horse, nolt, sheep, outsight and insight plenishing.Ayr. 1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage 95:
I saw nae wanworths gaun either in the outsight or insight plenishin', sae I coft naething.
