engrosser or regrater
someone who buys goods in a fair or market and then sells them again in the same or an adjoining market with the purpose of bumping up the price.
Your Scottish Archives Glossary
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entail (or tailzie)
A deed by which the legal course of succession to lands could be altered and another one substituted, or by which the descent of the lands could be secured to a specified succession of heirs and substitutes. The Entail (Scotland) Act 1914 prevented the creation of new entails after that date.
entres, entresse
interest or concern in a property or in some matters; can also mean interest in a sum of money.
entry of an heir
acceptance of an heir to landed property by the feudal superior of the property.