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laird
Alternative clues for the word laird
Word definitions for laird in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c. (mid-13c. as a surname), Scottish and northern England dialectal variant of lord , from Middle English laverd (see lord ). Related: Lairdship .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Laird is a generic name for the owner of a Scottish estate, roughly equivalent to an esquire in England, yet ranking above the same in Scotland. In the Scottish order of precedence, a laird ranks below a baron and above a gentleman. This rank is only held ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laird \Laird\ (l[^a]rd), n. [See Lord .] A lord; a landholder, esp. one who holds land directly of the crown. [Scot.]
Usage examples of laird.
The laird stood his ground with much ado, though his face was often crimsoned over with the hues of shame and anger.
Her chamber woman, in curch and tartan screen, was old nurse and sole domestic of the high-headed, strong-minded, stately widow of a wild north-country laird, whose son now ruled alone in the rugged family mansion among the grand, misty mountains of Lochaber.
LRD, as in Laird, or dit dah dit, dah dit dah, dit dah dit, for RKR, as in Rucker, was a mystery whose solution was known only to the FAA.
Now, I can tell you, that your auld Laird is disturbed in his grave by your curses, and the wailing of your family, and if ye daur venture to go to see him, he will give you the receipt.
I hae said, and whan he didna come, I took my hat--that was about a half-hoor efter the laird left me--and gaed oot to luik for him.
Climbing up an espalier, he soon reached the top, and looking down on the other side, to his horror and rage espied the mad laird on the ground, and the very men of whom he had been in pursuit, standing over him and brutally tormenting him, apparently in order to make him get up and go along with them.
And it happened, too, that he was the one person in all the world that Jock would most wish not to hear it, for he was gamekeeper to the Laird of Glen Cairn, and the Laird of Glen Cairn owned all the land for miles and miles about in every direction.
Trapping the laird of the castle in his own garderobe appealed to her sense of humor.
Along with your title, I award to you the lands that stretch from Callender in Perthshire to the land from Sterling to the Clyde, and I appoint you laird of all the MacDonald clans in Glengarry, who have long been with out a leader.
Invergarry, the castle of the laird of Glengarry, and continued his journey into the west Highlands, where he found shelter in a village called Glenbeisdale, near where he had landed on his expedition for the conquest of England.
Lairds should bide in their ain houses if the land is to have any gude of them.
But for all her antiquity and lappets, it is not to be supposed what respect and deference Miss Jenny and her brother, the laird, received--nor the small praise that came to my share, for having had the spirit to invite them.
David Maigh, keeper of the blood slough hounds, belonging to the Laird of Riddel, in Tweeddale.
Scots border rievers led by a justly infamous noble raider, the Laird of Eliot, overriding the inborn prejudices of the rest of his followers and officers.
While still in the north, he had been offered and had eagerly accepted an aggregation of fierce, hard-riding, hard-fighting Scots border rievers led by a justly infamous noble raider, the Laird of Eliot, overriding the inborn prejudices of the rest of his followers and officers.