a. Sc. Obs. [f. FAR a. + LAND.] Coming from a distance; foreign.
a. 1595. Sir J. Maitland, And Admonitioun to my Lord of Mar, 36, in Maitland Poems (1830), App. 125.
| Thocht farland fules seime to haif fedderis fair, | |
| Cum they acquaint, thay will creip inner mair. |
1606. Birnie, Kirk-Buriall (1833), 33. Marchants might be excused through their religious pretence, whose vent was to furnish the far land Iewes, being vnprouyded of a demisicle for the Tabernacles tribvte.
