Scot
[skɒt] or [skɑt]
Definition
(n.) A name for a horse.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.
(n.) A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tax, contribution, reckoning.
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Definition
n. a native of Scotland: one of the Scoti or Scots a Celtic race who migrated from Ireland—the original Scotia—before the end of the 5th century.—n. Scō′tia Scotland.—Scots Greys a famous regiment of dragoons established in 1683; Scots Guards the Scottish force which served the kings of France from 1418 down to the battle of Minden (1759) nominally retained however down to 1830: a well-known regiment of Guards in the British army formerly Scots Fusiliers.—Pound Scots 1s. 8d.
n. a payment esp. a customary tax—also Shot.—adj. Scot′-free free from scot or payment: untaxed: unhurt safe.—Scot and lot an old legal phrase embracing all parochial assessments for the poor the church lighting cleansing and watching.
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Examples
- She paid scot and she paid lot when she had money to pay; she worked when she could, and she starved when she must. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Of Dolly's journey to Wales with Mr. Scot. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was seldom indeed that we escaped, to use an old-fashioned phrase, scot free. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You are not to pocket other people's pounds, shillings, and pence and escape scot-free. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It is that which enables me to speak French so well: a gude Scots tongue always succeeds well at the French. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Charles Morrison in 1753, in the _Scots Magazine_, proposed a telegraph system of insulated wires with a corresponding number of characters to be signalled between two stations. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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