a. Obs. Chiefly Sc. [f. UPLAND sb. (either possessive sing. or the plur. used attrib.), or Sc. var. of prec.] = UPLANDISH a.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl., 5077 (Kölbing). The vplondismen, þat hadden ladde Cartes & somers. Ibid., 5271, 6776.
14[?]. in Sc. Acts Parlt. (1814), I. 333. Ilke burges may punde ane uplandis man.
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 218. Held he na houss; Bot in wplandis townis … Cryand full crowss.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xiii. 1. Ane mvrlandis man of vplandis mak.
1585. Jas. I., Ess. Poesie (Arb.), 63. Gif zour purpose be of landwart effairis, [take heed] To vse corruptit and vplandis wordis.
