norland1
(ˈnɔːlənd)
Also Sc. 8–9 norlan', 9 norlin', norelin.
[Reduced form of northland.]
1. The north-country; the land in the north.
| a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 202 He was to ryde to the norland amangis his lordis. 1844 Mrs. Browning Drama of Exile 1707 As the storm-wind blows bleakly from the norland. 1880 Swinburne Songs of Four Seasons i, Our noisy norland. |
b. attrib. Belonging to the north.
| a 1578 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 202 The norland lordis that fawored him. Ibid. 205 The norland men and wastland men. 1786 Burns Earnest Cry xiv, Erskine, a spunkie norland billie. c 1792 ― Here's a health to them that's awa, Here's a health to Tammie, the Norland laddie. 1830 Tennyson Oriana xi, When Norland winds pipe down the sea. 1864 Daily Tel. 25 Oct., In these norland woods and groves. |
2. A northerner; a north-country person, esp. one from the north of Scotland.
| 1771 J. Macpherson Introd. Hist. Grt. Brit. & Irel. 129 The appellation of Southerons and Norlands are not hitherto totally extinguished among the Scots. 1798 Crawford Poems 27 (E.D.D.), Kirsty was a Norlan' bred. 1817 J. Gilchrist Intell. Patrimony 159 The journeyman carpenter..possessed all the quaint shrewdness which is among the Scotch implied in the word Norelin. |
Hence ˈnorlander = prec. 2; ˈnorlandism, a characteristic of a northern dialect.
| 1716 in Maidment Spottiswoode Misc. (1845) II. 449 They met with a bold Norlander of Aberdeenshire. c 1795 Scott in Child Ballads (1892) IV. 387 note, I recollect several of them as recited in the south of Scotland divested of their Norlandisms. |