† scherand Sc. Obs.
[Origin unknown: ? a form of the name of the French river Gironde.]
The designation of a kind of wine.
| 1536 Elgin Rec. (New Spald. Club, 1903) I. 30 The pynt of fine Scherand or Amzerk vyne x d. 1564 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 299 The tun of Scherand wyne..and the pynt of Scherand wyne. |