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An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.

To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. [R.]

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.

Same as Scotch terrier.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

See Scot, a tax. [Obs.]

hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

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

See Peter pence, under Peter.

Oaken timber or boarding. [Obs.] A wedge wainscot is fittest and most proper for cleaving of an oaken tree. Urquhart. Inclosed in a chest of wainscot. J. Dart.

The material used to wainscot a house, or the wainscot as a whole; panelwork.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

isrule (or Lord of Misrule), in mediæval times, the master of revels, as at Christmas; in Scotland called the Abbot of Unreason. Encyc. Brit.

Perhaps. [Scot.]

and adv. Above. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

scarrying; fruitless; unsuccessful; as, an abortive attempt. "An abortive enterprise." Prescott.

or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott.

lean; a cleansing; a purging. The task of ablution and abstersion being performed. Sir W. Scott.

incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.