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.