Scottish legal and trade usage from 'outset' (to set out/publish).
Scottish legal and trade usage from 'outset' (to set out/publish). Before modern publishing houses, an outsetter was typically a printer-bookseller who both produced and distributed printed works. The term reflects the undivided printing-publishing trade of early modern Scotland.
The pamphlet was printed by an outsetter in Edinburgh's Lawnmarket and sold from his shop window by noon.
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(Scotland, obsolete) unhoused cattle, wintered in the fields.
(transitive) To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing.
Scottish architectural term for a section of a building that projects outward from the main structure — a bump-out, lean-to, or extension that sticks out beyond the original walls. An outshot might house a small extra room, a storage space, or a pantry. The term is specific to traditional Scottish building vocabulary and is still used in architectural heritage contexts when describing old cottages, farmhouses, and historic buildings across Scotland.
(legal, Scotland) Pertaining to a district not astricted to a particular mill.
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(Scotland, obsolete) A publisher.
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