Definition of Cairny

1. cairn [adj] - See also: cairn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cairny

caipirinhas
caipivodka
caipivodkas
caique
caiques
caird
cairds
cairn
cairn terrier
cairn terriers
cairned
cairngorm
cairngorms
cairngormstone
cairns
cairny (current term)
caissaca
caisson
caisson disease
caisson sickness
caissons
caitiff
caitiffs
caitive
caitives
caixin
cajan pea
cajaput
cajaputs
cajeput

Literary usage of Cairny

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session by Mungo Ponton Brown, William Maxwell Morison, Scotland Court of Session (1826)
"... till first Mr William counted and reckoned, and cleared any thing Sir Walter had to charge old cairny with,—of intromissions, or connivance with the ..."

2. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry by Bernard Burke (1891)
"James, *. to the property of cairny, and in. Jonet, daughter of William Guthrie, of Gagie, grandson of Alexander Guthrie, of Guthrie, dying in 1613. ..."

3. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United by George Edward Cokayne (1895)
"1765, at Edinburgh, Elizabeth, 2d da. of James MORAY, of Aber- cairny, со. Perth. He d. ... MI His widow d. я.p., 6 May 1781, at Aber- cairny afsd. V. 1768. ..."

4. Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica by Joseph Jackson Howard (1898)
"DOM | Under this stone lyeth the body 1 of John Aikman of cairny | near Arbroath in the shire of Angus in the Kingdom of Scotland | for the space of ..."

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