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Dizziness with dimness of sight. [Obs.] Massinger.

An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light. [Obs.] Pepys.

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

See Scotchman.

The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [Prov. Eng.]

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 small inclosure for sheep; a pen; a fold.

ids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates).

A pipefish of the genus Syngnathus. See Pipefish.

Of or pertaining to Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, on the east coast of Africa. -- n.

A follower of Joanna Southcott (1750-1814), an Englishwoman who, professing to have received a miraculous calling, preached and prophesied, and committed many impious absurdities.

Moderately narcotic.

Green maize and beans boiled together. The dish is borrowed from the native Indians. [Written also suckatash.]

The squeteague.

A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]

Having united cotyledonous.

Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]