ounce
measure of weight. Used as part of the Scots Troy measurement system, from the fourteenth century onwards. For further details, see Weights.
Your Scottish Archives Glossary
The Your Scottish Archives Glossary defines archaic words and phrases, mostly Scots law terminology, commonly found in documents and records in Scotland’s archives. If you think a word or phrase should be added to the glossary, or an existing entry could be defined better, please contact us at your@scottisharchives.org.uk.
You can also use the Dictionary of the Scots Language as a further resource at https://dsl.ac.uk/ for Scots words and phrases (including legal terminology).
To find a term within the glossary, click on the initial letter of the word you are looking for, then select the relevant syllable segment displayed below.
Example: to find the term “roup” select section “R” then sub-section “Ro”
outed minister
a minister who had been ejected from his parish.
outfield, outfeild
the more outlying and less fertile part of a farm, where the ground was seldom or never cultivated (before the introduction of enclosure and crop rotation in the 18th century)
outreach
usually used to refer to a range of activities to engage with users, identify their needs and provide services that support the aims of the archive service, such as exhibitions, workshops, talks and learning or educational programmes, through a variety of methods and media.
outredding
usually applied to someone’s ‘affairs’; it means ‘settling’
outsight plenishing
moveable property kept or lying out of doors; it would include livestock and implements like ploughs, but not corn or hay, which were not reckoned as ‘plenishings’