Sc. var. of upoland UPONLAND adv. (with further reduction of the prep.; cf. ALAND adv.). Obs.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, I. 19. At feistis and brydallis wpaland, He wan the gre.
1560–1. 1st Bk. Discipl. Ch. Scot. (1621), 40. If it be upaland where the people convene to the doctrine but once in the week.
1572. Satir. Poems Reform., xxxiii. 158. Ȝe do not ȝour office, For vpaland thay haue not dew seruice.
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Sonn., xxv. 3. This is no lyfe that I live vpaland.
b. Jock upaland, a rustic. Also allusively.
a. 1568. Bannatyne MS. (Hunter. Club), 268. Thus said Jok vpalland.
1637–50. Row, Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.), 463. Many are gaping for it [sc. a church], and using moyen at Court to gaine it, but it will be Jok up-a-land.
Hence † Upalands a. = UPLANDS a.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 4040. I leirit ȝow merchants mony ane wyle, Vpalands wyfis for to begyle.
1595. Duncan, App. Etym. (E.D.S.), Pero, vpalands shoone.
