Sc. Also 7 leippie. [dim. of LEAP sb.2] The fourth part of a peck; in goods sold by weight usually in 13/4 lb.
1612. in Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs (1870), II. 374. To tak na mair for furlett, pek, and leippie, fra the burrowes bot fourty merk in tyme cumming.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. xviii. There shall her justum both in Peck and Lippy be furnish’d to the full eternally.
1725. Newburgh Council Rec., in Laing, Lindores Abbey, etc., xxiv. (1876), 310. All conserned ar to pay the said herd ffor ilk beast off Coū six lippies off good and sufficient bear.
1743. R. Maxwell, Sel. Trans., 272. Give each Beast twice a Day, Morning and Evening,… a Lippy and a half … Linlithgow Measure, of the best Oats.
1796. Statist. Acc. Scot., XVII. 464. The return of lint is commonly a stone of flax from the lippie.
1868. Perthsh. Jrnl., 18 June. We lately heard of some being caught after roosting whose stomachs were found to contain one-fourth of an imperial lippy of grain.
1896. Barrie, Marg. Ogilvy, iv. (1897), 65. I was sounded as to the advisability of sending him a present of a lippie of shortbread.
b. A measure or vessel holding this quantity.
1847–8. H. Miller, First Impr., xi. (1857), 168. A measure, much like what in Scotland we would term a meal lippy.
c. Comb.: lippy(‘s-bound(s, the space of ground required for sowing a ‘lippy’ of flax-seed.
In some districts = 100 square yards.
1876. Laing, Lindores Abbey, etc., xxiii. 300. Domestic servants had a small patch (two lippies-bounds, equal to about five and a half poles) allotted to them.
