Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
moorland .
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Examples
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Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
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I have been informed that this work had a considerable run among the muirland farmers, whose reception of it was not flattering.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Sometime before 1745 he was settled as missionary at Amulree, a muirland district near Dunkeld.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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If it be large and shapeless, it may take rank as an amorphous megalith; and it is on record that the owner of some muirland acres, finding them described in a learned work as "richly megalithic," became suddenly excited by hopes which were quickly extinguished when the import of the term was fully explained to him.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Muirland Jock! muirland Jock, when the Ld makes a rock,
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Steering by this, but a good deal at random, and with some trampling of the harvest, and stumbling and falling down upon the banks, we made our way across country, and won forth at last upon the linky, boggy muirland that they call the Figgate Whins.
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Steering by this, but a good deal at random, and with some trampling of the harvest, and stumbling and falling down upon the banks, we made our way across country, and won forth at last upon the linky, boggy muirland that they call the Figgate Whins.
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Steering by this, but a good deal at random, and with some trampling of the harvest, and stumbling and falling down upon the banks, we made our way across country, and won forth at last upon the linky, boggy muirland that they call the Figgate Whins.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh.
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When eoTn riggs wav'd yellow, and blue hether-bells Bloom'd bonny on muirland and sweet rising fells,
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