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Word Meanings - SCOTCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom , the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck , the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch.

Additional info about word: SCOTCH

Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom , the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck , the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale , the sedge warbler. -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle , a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.

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  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • SCOTCHING
    Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
  • FIDDLE-SHAPED
    Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.
  • CALL
    callen, AS. ceallin; akin to Icel & Sw. kalla, Dan. kalde, D. kallen 1. To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant. Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain Shak. 2. To summon to the discharge of a particular
  • FIDDLER
    A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and
  • CALLIOPE
    The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses. (more info) beautiful) +
  • CALLOT
    A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.
  • CALLIGRAPHIC; CALLIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
  • FIDDLEDEEDEE
    An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense!
  • FIDDLE-FADDLE
    A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. Spectator.
  • CALLOSE
    Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
  • CALLIDITY
    Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.
  • SCOTCH RITE
    The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.
  • FIDDLESTICK
    The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
  • BROOM CORN
    A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.
  • CALLIGRAPHY
    Fair or elegant penmanship.
  • BROOMSTICK
    A stick used as a handle of a broom.
  • GYMNASTICALLY
    In a gymnastic manner.
  • OVERLANGUAGED
    Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • SCALLION
    A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
  • UNEMPIRICALLY
    Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • PARABOLICALLY
    1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • HEMEROCALLIS
    A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
  • ACRONYCALLY
    In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
  • PHYSIOLOGICALLY
    In a physiological manner.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
  • BUTTER-SCOTCH
    A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
  • ETHNICALLY
    In an ethnical manner.
  • ECCENTRICALLY
    In an eccentric manner. Drove eccentrically here and there. Lew Wallace.
  • IAMBICALLY
    In a iambic manner; after the manner of iambics.

 

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