An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

SOLAND, SOLAND GOOSE, s. The gannet, S.
Houlate.

Norw. sule, Isl. sula, id.

To SOLD, v. a. To solder.
Acts Ja. IV.

Fr. soud-er, Ital. sold-are, id.

SOLD, s.
1. A weight, ingot, S. sowd.
Douglas.
2. Money in general.
Wallace.

Teut. sold, soud, stipendium; A. S. seod, a purse.

SOLESHOE, s. A piece of iron on that part of a plough on which the share is fixed, Fife.

Su. G. sko, denotes whatever strengthens the extremity of any thing.

SOLYEING, s. The act of solving.

O. Fr. sol-er, soivere.