[a. ON. blanda (fem.) a mixture of fluids, spec. ‘a beverage of hot whey mixed with water,’ Vigfusson: cf. OE. bland (neut.) ‘mixture.’] The name in Orkney and Shetland of a beverage made of buttermilk and water.
1703. M. Martin, Descr. W. Isles (1716), 374. Their drinking of bland [in Shetland].
1732. De Foe, etc., Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), IV. 337.
1822. Scott, Pirate, vi. (D.). She filled a small wooden quaigh from an earthen pitcher which contained bland, a subacid liquor made out of the serous part of the milk.
1837. R. Dunn, Ornith. Ork. & Shet., 13.
