Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
Hide Quotations Hide Etymology
About this entry:
First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
PROPERTY, n. Sc. usages:
1. As in Eng. Used attrib. in combs. property house, — land, etc., a house, land etc., which is let to a tenant.Sh. 1814 Lockhart Scott xxviii.:
He has what are called property lands in every Township, or in most, which he lets to his tenants.Knr. 1814 P. Graham Agric. Knr. 175:
At present there are 26 inhabited houses in one village, of which I am the proprietor; five property houses, and 12 feus, in another.
2. In pl., in Heriot's Hosp. usage: certain wooden emblems which were decorated with flowers and hung on the face of the school building on June Day, the founder's birthday (Edb. 1898 J. Baillie W. Crighton 285). Cf. Eng. property, of theatrical furnishings.Edb. 1859 F. W. Bedford Heriot's Hosp. 344:
Properties. The wood-work of the thistle, horns of plenty, &c., which were decorated on Heriot's Day.
