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51Aberdeen, Old — ABERDEEN, OLD, or Old Machar,a parish, chiefly without, but partly within, the city of Aberdeen, county of Aberdeen; comprising the quoad sacra districts of Bon Accord, Gilcomston, Holburn, and Woodside; and containing 28,020 inhabitants, of… …
52Abernyte — ABERNYTE, a parish, in the county of Perth, 10 miles (W.) from Dundee; containing 280 inhabitants. The name of this place is of Gaelic origin, referring to the situation of the principal village, near the confluence of two rivulets, one of… …
53Dysart — DYSART, a burgh, seaport town, and parish, in the district of Kirkcaldy, county of Fife; including the villages of Boreland and Gallatown, the late quoad sacra parish of Pathhead, and part of that of Thornton; and containing 7591 inhabitants,… …
54Hobkirk, or Hopekirk — HOBKIRK, or HOPEKIRK, a parish, in the district of Jedburgh, county of Roxburgh, 8 miles (E. S. E.) from Hawick; containing 776 inhabitants. This parish, which is not distinguished by any events of historical importance, appears to have… …
55Inveraven — INVERAVEN, a parish, partly in the county of Eligin, but chiefly in the county of Banff, 11 miles (N. E. by E.) from Grantown; containing 2417 inhabitants. This place derives its name from its situation at the mouth of the river Aven, which… …
56Description — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Description >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 description description account statement report Sgm: N 1 expose expose &c.(disclosure) 529 specification particulars Sgm: N 1 state of facts state of facts summary o …
57tradition — noun 1》 the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way. ↘a long established custom or belief passed on from one generation to another. 2》 an artistic or literary method or… …
58traditional — a. Orally transmitted (from age to age), traditionary, traditive …
59Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel — (fl. 1470 1492) Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skilled in the composition of rhymes in the Scottish tongue, who fabricated a book about William Wallace, and gained his living by reciting it to… …
60Scott, Sir Walter — (1771 1832) Poet, novelist, and biographer, s. of Walter S., a Writer to the Signet in Edinburgh, and Margaret Rutherford, dau. of one of the Prof. of Medicine in the Univ. there. Through both parents he was connected with several old Border… …
