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[Scot] W. Scott Waverley II 122: D’ye think the lads wi’ the kilts will care for yere synods and yere presbyteries, and yere buttock-mail, and yere stool o’ repentance?
at buttock mail (n.) under buttock, v.
[Scot] W. Scott Waverley Ch. xi n.p.: And now the Demon of Politics envied even the harmony arising from this Dutch concert merely because there was not a wrathful note in the strange compound of sounds which it produced [F&H].
at Dutch concert (n.) under Dutch, adj.1
[Scot] W. Scott Waverley Ch. lxiv: There’s plenty of brandy in the greybeard.
at greybeard (n.) under grey, adj.
[Scot] W. Scott Waverley (1821) 131: Of this he took a copious dram, observing he had already taken his morning with Donald Bean Lean .
at morning, n.
[Scot] W. Scott Waverley (1821) 288: And ye wanted a spanker that would lead the field, [...] I would serve ye easy.
at spanker, n.2
[Scot] W. Scott Waverley (1877) 92/1: I’ll set my ten commandments in the face o’ the first loon that lays a finger on him.
at ten commandments (n.) under ten, adj.
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