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Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. {Scottish}.]
Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
inhabitants; Scottish.
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{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] --Sir W. Scott.
{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.
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Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
mote. See {Stone}.]
1. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn
and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The
pebbles on the hungry beach." --Shak.
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As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
--Milton.
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2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
pebble; -- so called by opticians.
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{Pebble powder}, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
grains.
{Scotch pebble}, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
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