scotia (skotia)

[F. scotie, IMG:content-0346.jpg:[graphic] tori. It takes its name from the dark shadow form ed by it. It is frequently formed in IMG:content-0347.jpg:[ocr errors] the best work by the junction of Base of Column (Ionic) of the Erechtheum, curved surfaces of different radii, or Athens, a , scotia. Scotch catch or snap, in music, the rhythmic figure usually represented by -that is, the division of a raspberry. [U. S.] beat into a short part under the accent followed by a long scotch-collops. part; the reverse of the common division, in which the dotted note precedes. So called because frequently oс curring in Scotch songs and dances. It is characteristic of the strathspey. - Scotch curlies, a variety of kale, so called from its curled leaves. - Scotch dipper or duck. See duck2. - Scotch douche, a douche of hot water, beginning at a temperature 40° C., increased gradually to 45-50° C., and immediately followed by cold water; more generally, a succe ion of alternate hot and cold douches. -Scotch dumpling, elm, fiddle. See the nouns. Scotch fir. Same as Scotch pine. - Scotch furnace, a simple form of or hearth used in smelting lead same as Pará gra . [West Indies.] - Scotch hearth, a small orehearth or furnace used in Scotland and the north of England for smelting lead ore. The hearth-bottom and all the parts adjacent to it are of cast-iron. It is very similar to the ore-hearth in general use for the same purpose in the Mi i ippi valley. See ore - hearth. - Scotch heath or heather, most properly, Erica cinerea (see heath, 2); also [U. S.], the common heather, Calluna vulgar is. Scotch jewelry, lovage, marriage, mist, nightingale. See the nouns. - Scotch kale, a variety of kale with light-green lobed leaves which are much curled and crinkled on the margins; green borecole. - Scotch pebble, a semi-precious stone of a kind found in Scotland, and used in inexpensive jewelry, the mounting of weapons, and the like: the name is especially given to varieties of agate and jasper. Compare cairngorm. - Scotch pine, primrose, rose, saw-fly, scale. See the nouns.Scotch ptarmigan, the common red game of Great Britain, Lagopus scoticus. Scotch snap. Same as Scotch catch.-Scotch spur, stone, thistle, turbine, etc. See the nouns.-Scotch teal. Same as Scotch dipper or duck. II. n. 1. Collectively, the people of Scotland. Also Scots, as plural of Scot.-2. The dialect or Scotch gambit. See gambit. - Scotch gra . scotch2. See scotched collops , under