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Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland. Highland fling, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.

An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.

Highlanders, collectively.

Scotland; esp. the Highlands of Scotland. T. Cambell.

A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

l and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France. [Written also Kelt. The letter C was pronounced hard in Celtic languages.]

A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

Second sight. I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by the Scottish Highlander. Dirk knife, a clasp knife having a large, dirklike blade.

A name sometimes given to that dialect of the Celtic which is spoken in the Highlands of Scotland; -- called, by the Highlanders, Gaelic.

ss or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.

A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.

A Celt or the Celts of the Scotch Highlands or of Ireland; now esp., a Scotch Highlander of Celtic origin.

Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.

t which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

A boy or young man; a manservant; a male attendant, in the Scottish Highlands. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg. [Written also kelt.]