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A coronet. [Poetic] Sir W. Scott.

A kind of weir or dam for trapping salmon; also, a hovel. [Scot.]

Arbuthnot. The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces. Prescott.

Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

rcome completely; to subdue totally. Speedily overtaking and crushing the rebels. Sir. W. Scott. To crush a cup, to drink. [Obs.] -- To crush out. (a) To force out or separate by pressure, as juice from grapes. (b) To overcome or destroy completely; to suppress.

elow this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.

istance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

ry, a tumbrel, and a trebuchet; and often, but not so correctly, a ducking stool. Sir. W. Scott.

An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer. [Scot.]

One of a class of anchorites who lived in various parts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The pure Culdees Were Albyn's earliest priests of God. Campbell.

ulverin. Falcon and culver on each tower Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower. Sir W. Scott.

r.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

To play at the game called curling. [Scot.]

A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or iron are propelled by hand over the ice towards a mark. Curling . . . is an amusement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The ob…

umbling; -- sometimes applied to the rumbling produced by a slight attack of the gripes. [Scot.] Burns.

To coo. [Scot.] The owlets hoot, the owlets curr. Wordsworth.

Shak. All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery. Sir W. Scott.

The ringdove or wood pigeon. Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.