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Merk :: Merk (n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.

Hub :: Hub (n.) A block for scotching a wheel.

Brehon :: Brehon (n.) An ancient Irish or Scotch judge.

Ell :: Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37..

Pock-pudding :: Pock-pudding (n.) A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

Scotticism :: Scotticism (n.) An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen..

Ploughgate :: Ploughgate (n.) The Scotch equivalent of the English word plowland.

Slug-horn :: Slug-horn (a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan..

Redshank :: Redshank (n.) A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs..

Scotched :: Scotched (imp. & p. p.) of Scotc.

Cameronian :: Cameronian (n.) A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter of the time of Charles II..

Broad :: Broad (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent..

Whiggamore :: Whiggamore (n.) A Whig; -- a cant term applied in contempt to Scotch Presbyterians.

Bluecap :: Bluecap (n.) A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Scots :: Scots (a.) Of or pertaining to the Scotch; Scotch; Scottish; as, Scots law; a pound Scots (1s. 8d.)..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel..

Scotch :: Scotch (n.) Collectively, the people of Scotland..

Ecossaise :: Ecossaise (n.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

Glenlivet :: Glenlivet (n.) A kind of Scotch whisky, named from the district in which it was first made..

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