LISPUND, LESPUND, LESCHPUND (idem ac SETTEEN q. vide), A Weight = 24 Marks, or ⅙ of a Meil, or 1/15 of a Barrel; gradually raised by the donataries from 12 to 18 ℔ Scots measure. MARK, N. MÖRK, _bes, sonulibru, octo unciæ_, A weight = 8 ounces or 1/24 of a Lispund or Setteen, gradually raised to 20 ounces; also a Land-Measure, not of extent, but of valuation proportioned to the taxation, and regulating both rights and burdens. MEIL, N. MÆLIR, A Weight = 6 Lespunds, or 1/24 of a Last. MERK, A Scottish coin = 13s. 4d. or ⅔ of a Pound Scots. MŒLISCOP, A local Land-measure = ⅙ of a pennyland. MUIR, Islandic MOAR, _ericetum_, Heath pasture, common to all the Skathalds and Hrepps of a Herad. MUIR STANE, N. MOAR STENN, The idol, afterwards (till lately) the THINGSTOD of a HERAD, or Vard-Thing. NOBLE, ANGEL-NOBLE, An English gold coin = 10 shillings sterling. NONENTRY, A Scottish Feudal casualty. O-BOTA-MALI, (N.) _crimen ære non expiabile_, Crime inferring death, exile, or forfeiture to the King. ODAL, N. ODAL, _allodium, prædium hereditarium_, The estate of an Odaller; quasi ODH-AL _plena possessio_. ODAL-BORN, N. ODAL-BORINN, _natus ad heredium avitum, viz., rectâ lineâ a primo occupante_. ODALRED, N. ODH-AL-RÆDI, _jus plenæ possessionis a primo occupante_. ODALLER, ODALSMADR, _dominus allodialis_, The Free possessor of an Odalsjord. ODALSJORD, (N.) _prædium hereditarium_. OX-MONEY and SHEEP-MONEY, Exactions in Zetland, grounded upon the provisions furnished to Bothwell. PACK, N. PACKI, A quantity of Wadmæl = 10 Gudlings. PLOWK, Scot. A plug or pin. PUNDLAR, N. PUNDARI, _statera_, An instrument of Weight of two kinds, viz., the Malt-pundlar for Lispunds, Meils, and Lasts of Malt—1 Last = 24 Meils = 144 Lispunds; and the Bere-pundlar for Bere only, but estimating the Last as containing 36 Meils, or one-third more than the Malt-pundlar, according to a conventional proportion of raw to dried grain. PURPRESION, PURPRESTURE, A feudal casualty of forfeiture or fine for encroachment on the rights of the Overlord. QUOY, N. QUI, _area circumsepta_, An enclosure. RENTALS OF ORKNEY, Records of the Odaller’s Skatts, Tenants’ Males, Vassal’s Feu-duties, and Parish burdens, chargeable by the Donatary or Chamberlain. ROOM, N. RUM, _locus_, The same in Zetland as TUN in Orkney. ROTHE, ROYTH, N. RŒDI, _dispensatio rei œconomicæ_, The Odaller’s Conditions and Rights as master of his own house—ROITHISMEN and ROTHISMEN’S SONS, Odallers and Odalborn. SAMYNG, N. SŒMD, _honos, decus_, An Odaller’s Rank and Dignity as a free-born Thingman.