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noun

Scotch n.

The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of Scotland.

Collectively, the people of Scotland.

Scotch n. A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping; as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

Scotch n. A slight cut or incision; a score.

adjective

Scotch adj. Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.

Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zool.), the bufflehead; called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman.

Scotch fiddle, the itch. (Low)

Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.

Scotch nightingale (Zool.), the sedge warbler. (Prov. Eng.)

Scotch pebble. See under pebble.

Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.

Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordon acanthium); so called from its being the national emblem of the Scotch.

verb

Scotch v. t. (past & past part. scotched; pres. part. scotching) (Written also scoatch, scoat) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Scotch v. t. To cut superficially; to wound; to score. "We have scotched the snake, not killed it."

Scotched collops (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with onion and other condiments; called also Scotch collops. (Written also scotcht collops)

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"Scotch" Quotes from Famous Books

... help a great cause," said a long, lean man, bent in the shoulder, and with lantern jaws which mouthed out his words in the strongest of Scotch accents. "I'm Ferguson. Ye've heard of me; and I'm saying it's a fight against the enemies of the Lord ye've come ...

— The Brown Mask • Percy J. Brebner

... Chinese, by a child of hell, call'd wit; Wealth makes the Persian too effeminate; And poverty the Tartar desperate: The Turks and Moors, by Mah'met he subdues; And God has given him leave to rule the Jews: Rage rules the Portuguese, and fraud the Scotch; Revenge the ...

— The True-Born Englishman - A Satire • Daniel Defoe

... talking? It sounds very odd. It is English, and yet it is not. Yes, it is what learned men call "Middle English"—because it stands midway between the very oldest English, or Anglo-saxon, and the modern English which we speak now. It is about as much like our English as broad Scotch is. A few words and expressions through the story will give an idea how different it is; but if I were to write exactly as they would have spoken, nobody would understand ...

— Our Little Lady - Six Hundred Years Ago • Emily Sarah Holt

... and pass on to the question of education, whose universality among native Americans is perhaps most vividly illustrated by the following facts. Of 1,200 persons born in Massachusetts, whether of native or foreign parents, only one is unable to read or write, while four Germans and Scotch, six English, twenty French Canadians, twenty-eight Irish, and thirty-four Italians, out of every 100 emigrants of these nationalities respectively are illiterate. The total number of public, elementary, and high schools in the United States is 225,800, or about one ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 • Various

... No. 14 (January 1st, 1710) [sic], translates this story into an account of the Union. It is the same story, in effect, which gave great offence to the Scotch peers when printed in "The Public Spirit of the Whigs." The "Medley's" version runs: "England being bounded on the north by a poor mountainous people called Scots, who were vassals to that crown, and the English prime minister, being largely bribed, ...

— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift

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