If you select an area from the drop-down below, the area is going to be highlighted on the map to the right. A map image will appear below the drop-down.
If you click on an point of the map belonging to one or more of the regions in the drop-down, the region(s) defined for that point appear on the map. A pop up tells you which region(s) the clicked point is part of. By hovering the cursor over each region name in the pop-up, its outline is shown on the map. For example, try clicking somewhere on Buchan (north of Aberdeen), and then place the cursor over each of the list of regions that appear in the top right of the screen.
If you hover over the region abbreviations below (underlined with a dottied line), a small image with the area highlighted on a map will appear close to the cursor.
Ant.1900E.D.D.: “A grain of hay,” a bundle, an armful. “A grain of sugar,” a good spoonful.
Abd.1865R. DinnieBirse 20: Creels made of hazel, birch, or willow wands, with the bottoms hinged on one side and a sneck or catch on the other.
Gsw.1972Molly WeirBest Foot Forward (1974) 200: Describing a bus conductor who'd infuriated him, one of my brother's mates had said, 'He wis wan o' thae fullas wi' eyes a' sewn wi' rid worset.'
n.Sc.1808Jam.: Mashlie also denotes the broken parts of moss. Mashlie moss, a moss of this description, one in which the substance is so loose that peats cannot be cast; but the dross, or mashlie is dried, and used for the back of a fire on the hearth.
mn.Sc.1931I. MacphersonShepherd's Calendar 250: It's a sair chauve cairting that barrow-load o' guts aboot wi' him the whole time.
Bch.1944Scots Mag. (Feb.) 370: The tink sits sidelins on the float, a cowt atween the theats, A skweengin' bikk ahin the wheels.