cant: (adj) In Scots and Northern Dialect: Bold, brisk, courageous, hearty, lusty, lively, hale. The Scots sense leans to ‘Lively, merry, brisk'.
tait: (n) In Australia: a honey-possum: a small West Australian marsupial, Tarsipes spenseræ.
braxy: (adj) Scots: 1. The popular name in Scotland of splenic apoplexy in sheep; an inflammatory disease of the internal parts, rapid and fatal in its effect.
2. the flesh of a braxy sheep, or, generally, of one that has died by disease or accident.
thrang: (n) Scots: 1. Oppression; distress, straits; trouble, woe, affliction; danger.
2. The pain of childbirth: usually plural.
crowdie: (n) In Scots and Northern Dialect: 1. Meal and water stirred together so as to form a thick gruel. Frequently used as a designation for food of the brose or porridge kind in general.
2. In some parts of the north of Scotland, a peculiar preparation of milk: In Ross-shire it denotes curds with the whey pressed out, mixed with butter, nearly in an equal proportion.
3. also humorously as a term of endearment.
brose: (n) 1. A dish made by pouring boiling water (or milk) on oatmeal (or oat-cake) seasoned with salt and butter.
2. "pease brose": a similar preparation of peasemeal. "Athole brose": a mixture of whiskey and honey.
posset: (n) 1. A drink made from hot milk curdled with ale, wine, or other liquor, flavoured with sugar, herbs, spices, etc., and often drunk for medicinal purposes; a kind of syllabub made from similar ingredients.
2. A quantity of milk regurgitated by a baby; baby vomit.
ettle: (v) 1. To intend, purpose, plan; to make it one's object, to endeavour.
2. To purpose, seek to bring about (a result).
3. To destine, ordain, assign.
4. To direct (speech or actions) to an object; especially to aim (a blow or missile) at a person or a mark (also figurative); to take aim (at).
5. To direct one's course.
6. To aim at (a thing); to make an effort at.
7. To arrange, set in order, range; to prepare.
8. To prepare oneself.
9. To guess, conjecture, divine.
Jedhart/Jeddart justice: (n) The practice of 'hang first, trial later' named after an area (Jedburgh) in the Scottish Borderlands where the practice was said to be common, but seems to have originated from a single case of summary execution of a band of outlaws.
grieve: (n) 1. A governor of a province, town, etc.
2. In Scots and Northern Dialect: The overseer, manager, or head-workman on a farm; a farm-bailiff.
post-diluvial: (adj) 1. In Geology: Subsequent to a period of deposition of diluvial or drift deposits (originally identified with the biblical Flood).
2. Existing, happening, or living, after the Flood described in the book of Genesis, or (later) after a widespread flood as described in other mythological traditions; also 'post-diluvian'
diluvial: (adj) 1. Of or belonging to a deluge or flood, especially to the Flood as recorded in Genesis.
2. In Geology: Applied to the theory which explained certain geological phenomena by reference to a general deluge, or to periods of catastrophic action of water.
3. Of or pertaining to the diluvium or drift-formation of early geologists; now generally called the Glacial Drift.
diluvium: (n) A term applied to superficial deposits which appear not to have been formed by the ordinary slow operations of water, but to be due to some extraordinary action on a vast scale; such were at first attributed to the Noachian or Universal deluge, whence the name; the chief of these deposits were those of the Northern Drift or Boulder formation at the close of the Tertiary Period, to which the name continued to be applied after the theory of their origin was given up; it is now generally ‘applied to all masses apparently the result of powerful aqueous agency’.
Noachian: (adj) 1. Of or relating to the biblical patriarch Noah or his time.
2. Very ancient; old-fashioned.
receivership: (n) 1. The office of a receiver: a person appointed by a court to administer the property of a bankrupt, or property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit.
2. The condition of being in the hands of a receiver.
flambeau: (n) 1. A torch; especially one made of several thick wicks dipped in wax; a lighted torch.
2. A fire-signal or beacon. Also figurative.
grillade: (n) 1. Something grilled, a broiled dish.
2. In Cookery: the browning of any dish, by rubbing a hot iron over it.
3. A grille or grating.
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