Scottish
['skɔtiʃ]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Scotch.
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Examples
- There are several varieties, as the Irish greyhound, the Scottish, the Russian, the Italian and the Turkish. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Now sing a song--a Scottish song, suggested Caroline, when the hymn was over--'Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But Scottish waters, and the waters around other coasts of the British Islands, had been traversed by steamboats before this celebrated trip of the _Savannah_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- She knew the story as well as if she had read it in one of her favourite novel-books--Fatherless Fanny, or the Scottish Chiefs. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- That he did not go was certainly better for Scottish verse, to which he contributed later so many immortal lines; and it was probably better for himself, even if he died a gauger. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Mag