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Rome Scot :: Rome scot () See Peter pence, under Peter..

Bannock :: Bannock (n.) A kind of cake or bread, in shape flat and roundish, commonly made of oatmeal or barley meal and baked on an iron plate, or griddle; -- used in Scotland and the northern counties of England..

Scotist :: Scotist (n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic..

March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..

Marc :: Marc (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence..

Resolutioner :: Resolutioner (n.) One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century..

Scotsman :: Scotsman (n.) See Scotchman.

Scotching :: Scotching (n.) Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.

Redcap :: Redcap (n.) A specter having long teeth, popularly supposed to haunt old castles in Scotland..

Mascotte :: Mascotte (n.) A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.

Hopscotch :: Hopscotch (n.) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers..

Kirkman :: Kirkman (n.) A member of the Church of Scotland, as distinguished from a member of another communion..

Brunonian :: Brunonian (a.) Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a state of excitation produced by the normal action of external agents upon the body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency of excitation..

Merchet :: Merchet (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters..

Thomist :: Thomist (n.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.

Scotch-hopper :: Scotch-hopper (n.) Hopscotch.

Maud :: Maud (n.) A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

Mosstrooper :: Mosstrooper (n.) One of a class of marauders or bandits that formerly infested the border country between England and Scotland; -- so called in allusion to the mossy or boggy character of much of the border country.

Seceder :: Seceder (n.) One of a numerous body of Presbyterians in Scotland who seceded from the communion of the Established Church, about the year 1733, and formed the Secession Church, so called..

Moss :: Moss (n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border..

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