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ˈwestland Chiefly Sc.
Also Sc. 6 vestland, 6, 9 wastland, 8 westlan'. (Cf. westlin a.)
[f. west a. (or OE. west-) + land n.1]
1. The western part of a country; esp. the West of Scotland.
1489Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 107 To pass with letteres of the Kingis for the Lordis of the Westlande. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 291 He passit..to the toune of Air and to the pairtis of the wastland. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxv, He uses maist partly the west⁓land of Scotland. 1894K. Hewat Little Scot. World v. 58 It was understood Montrose would make a descent on the Westland.
2. attrib.
a. Of persons: Living in, coming from, the West of Scotland.
c1470Henry Wallace vii. 776 A hundyr fyrst till him selff he has tayne, Off westland men. Ibid. x. 308. 1522 Q. Margaret in MS. Cott. Calig. B. vi. fol. 270 b, On the on syde, the vestland lordys and my lord of Angus vas forth. a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 205 All the rest of the norland men and wastland men mett the King at Stirling. 1651Sir A. Johnston (Ld. Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) II. 74 The vyle band which seven Westland gentle⁓men had subscryved. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxiv, When he raised his militia..against the wrang-headed wastland whigs. 1827― Two Drovers i, The strong west-landman laughed aloud. 1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 239 On the rear division were the westland and Stirlingshire men.
b. Of places: Situated in the west.
1523Q. Margaret in MS. Cott. Calig. B. vi. fol. 440 The erl of Huntlay hath all the ruil of the north partys, the erl of Lenoss all the vestland part. 1650J. Nicoll Diary (Bannatyne Club) 30 Ane Associatioun concludit and drawn up among the Westland schyres. c1670in Jrnl. Friends Hist. Soc. XXI. 69 Throwghout the Westland presbiteries belonging to that synod [sc. Glasgow]. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 608/1 Had she not given..reason to believe she thought them the greatest people on Westland ground. 1875Morris æneids viii. 148 All the Westland earth beneath their yoke shall lie.
c. Proceeding from the west; blowing from the west, westerly.
1650Sir A. Johnston (Ld. Wariston) Diary (S.H.S.) II. 30 They censured the Westland Remonstrance mor nor Northland Band. 1847Emerson Poems, Monadnoc 136 Smoking in a squalid room Where yet the westland breezes come.
Hence ˈwestlander; -landways adv.
a1676H. Guthrie Mem. (1702) 238 The West-Landers advanced towards Edinburgh. Ibid. 240 The Westlanders..were all poor ignorant Creatures, taken from their Husbandry. 1814Scott Wav. xxxvi, A few shots were exchanged betwixt them and the Westlanders. 1820― Monast. xxxv, Instead of that comes news that he has gone west⁓landways about some tuilzie in Ayrshire. |