fiar
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fiar
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Uncertain, perhaps from fee + -ar, compare feuar.
noun fiars
- One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter. I say, since ye hae sae muckle consideration for me, I'se be blithe to accept your kindness; and my mother and me (she's a life-renter, and I am fiar, o' the lands o' Wideopen) would grant you a wadset, or an heritable bond, for the siller, and to pay the annual-rent half-yearly; and Saunders Wyliec
- The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis. It seems to be a practice as improper as it is unnecessary, to strike the fiars in three different qualities of the same species of grain; and it should, in our humble opinion, be discontinued.
Talk about this word "fiar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fiar. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. fiar. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fiar "fiar." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fiar.
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@misc{fiar_2026,
title = {fiar},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fiar},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
