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Scot   /skɑt/   Listen
noun
Scot  n.  A name for a horse. (Obs.)



Scot  n.  A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scotsman, or Scotchman.



Scot  n.  A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot.
Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. (Eng.) Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly. "Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to pay scot and lot as they go along."






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"Scot" Quotes from Famous Books



... human beings continually troubled by the conditions under which they live. I can think of no time in the world when there was not some Question or other getting fussed about: at one time episcopal celibacy, at another time the Pict and Scot problem, and so on. Always a crumpled rose-leaf. Hence reform movements. Now, reforms move slowly, and by the time these reforms come about, the people whom they would have made happy, and who fussed and encountered dislike and satire and ...
— Select Conversations with an Uncle • H. G. Wells

... English consul Scot., Texas. Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas, Texas, its Geography, ...
— Southern Literature From 1579-1895 • Louise Manly

... respects Plato was right. David Lorimer had inherited, both from father and mother, an unruly temper. His father was a Scot, dour and self-willed; his mother had been a Spanish woman, of San Antonio—a daughter of the grandee family of Yturris. Their marriage had not been a happy one, and the fiery emotional Southern woman had fretted her life away against the rugged strength of ...
— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... Gloucester, "this is an unlikely tale. You can have no cause for secresy, save in connection with these brothers; and if you will point to some way of clearing yourself of being art and part in this foul act of murder, you may be sent scot free from the camp; but if you wilfully maintain this denial, what can we do but treat you as a traitor? No obstinacy! What can a lad like you have to say to good old Sir Robert Darcy, that all the world ...
— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge

... is a vivid and entertaining mediator between Carlyle and commonplace. In his younger days and writings he mediated between his master and commonplace radicalism,—representing the great Scot's antagonism to existing institutions, his sympathy with man as man, and his hope of a more human society, but representing it with sufficient admixture of vague fancy, Chartist catchword, weak passionateness, and spasmodic audacity, based, as such ever is, on moral cowardice. Of late he has ...
— Atlantic Monthly,Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics • Various


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