scotch3 (skoch)

[ Stop, dear nature, these ince ant advances of thine; let us scotch these ever-rolling wheels. Emerson , New England Reformers. II.t in trans. To hold back. For when they come to giving unto holie and nece arie uses, then they will sticke at a pennie, and scotch at a groat, and every thing is too much. Dent's Pathway , p. 74. ( Hall i well .) Scotch-amulet (skoch'am"ū-let), n. A British geometrid moth, Dasydia obfuscata. Scotch-and-English (skoch'and-ing'glish), n. The boys' game of prisoner's base as played in Great Britain: so called in the north of England, probably in allusion to the old border wars. Scotist