Converse of object

• become: Q. Can I make any money from this plot of land A. No Q. can children become lairds?

• do: Did too many other local lairds hold property in Innermessan to allow the Kennedies undisputed sway?

• have: Once this parish had a laird who dabbled in cannibalism.

Converse of subject

• build: Nearby is a watchtower built by the lairds to spy on tenants fishing offshore and also to watch out for the Customs.

Adjective modifier

• Scottish: Tony, who had never before seen a Scottish laird on his native heath got rather a shock.

• local: Client might employ a gardener on a shared basis with local laird.

• young: Dandie's sister, sitting by the side of Clem in her new Glasgow finery, chose that moment to observe the young laird.

• last: John Buchanan, the last laird, sold his ancestral estate in 1682 to the Marquess of Montrose.

• old: This note has thus given in detail the descendants of the four old lairds of Garnkirk.

• new: After a long and happy life, Granddad Laird dies, and Lord Lyon says that B is the new laird.

Modifies a noun

• o: The laird o the castel bad the princess jyne the splore, tho he haed his ain thochts anent hir unco frein.

Noun used with modifier

• bonnet: You play, Jacob, like a bonnet laird, or a sailor in a tavern.

• century: Another successful industry imported by the 18th century lairds was the weaving of linen.

• absentee: No fan of: Anything kailyard, absentee lairds, David Irving.

• merchant: Merchant Lairds of Long Ago: being studies of farming and trading conditions in Orkney in the early 18th Century: by Hugh Marwick.

• resident: Crown Derby china dating from the same time and belonging to the last resident laird, adds to the picture.

• story: Melsetter House's roots date back to 1738 when an L-shaped two story laird 's house was built here.

Possessives

• house: Dun Can is a mountain three computed miles from the laird's house.

• loft: A window replaced the possible door at the back of the laird's loft.

• wife: The same day, the pregnant laird's wife died, while he was devoured by wolves as foretold.