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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,912 words match “SCOT”

BROG v.
To prod with a pointed instrument, as a lance; also, to broggle. [Scot. & Prov.] Sir W. Scott.
BRONZE v.
or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.
BROSE n.
ter brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]
BROTHER v.
To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott.
BROWNIE n.
orm important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]
BRUN n.
Same as Brun, a brook. [Scot.]
BRUNONIAN a.
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.…
BRUTE a.
e mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.
BUAT n.
A lantern; also, the moon. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
BUCEPHALUS n.
Hence, any riding horse. [Jocose] Sir W. Scott.
BUCK n.
The beech tree. [Scot.] Buck mast, the mast or fruit of the beech tree. Johnson.
BUCKIE n.
A large spiral marine shell, esp. the common whelk. See Buccinum. [Scot.] Deil's buckie, a perverse, refractory youngster. [Slang]
BUCKLE v.
To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
BUFFET n.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff. When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott.
BUGLE HORN n.
A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.
BULL-NECKED a.
Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. Sir W. Scott.
BUNKER n.
A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat. [Scot.] Jamieson.
BURGESS n.
An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
BURGH n.
A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
BURGHER n.
A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
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