a. and sb. Sc. [variant of LOWLAND.] A. adj. Belonging to the Lowlands of Scotland. B. sb. (Also Lallans.) The Lowland Scotch dialect.
1785. Burns, Addr. to Deil, xix. But a’ your doings to rehearse … Wad ding a’ Lallan tongue, or Erse, In prose or rhyme. Ibid., To W. Simpson, Postscr. ii. They … spak their thoughts in plain, braid Lallans.
1791. A. Wilson, Laurel Disputed, Poems (1816), 40 (Jam.). Far aff our gentles for their poets flew, And scorn’d to own that Lallan songs they knew.
1887. R. L. Stevenson, Mem. & Portraits, Pastoral, 99. I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in montibus.
