bear seed, beerseed, beirseed

1. Barley, or big. "The shower 'll do muckle guid to the beer -seed. It's been a sair drowth this three weeks." - Tennant's Card. Beaton , p. 113. 2. That portion of agricultural labour which is appropriated to the raising of barley. vacance to be for the beirseid during the moneth of Maij."- Acts Ja. VI ., 1587 (ed, 1814), p. 447. 3. The season for sowing barley. "A dry season is not at all desirable for ploughing and sowing bear-land, because it directly encourages want of solidity. That defect is much supplied by a rainy bear-seed."-Survey of Banffshire, App., p. 49. (Jamie son.) IMG:content-1163.png:[blocks in formation]