Excerpt from Pocket Dictionary of the Scottish Idiom: In Which the Signification of the Words Is Given in English and German, Chiefly Calculated to Promote the Understanding of the Works of Sir Walter Scott, Rob. Burns Allan Ramsay &C; With an Appendix Containing Notes For t c more perfect understanding of Scottish works, it has not been deemed superfluous, not only to add to the list of the words such proper names as ma occasionally occur in them and be of interest, but a so an appendix with notes, explicative of many things referring to customs, manners, traditions, super stitious beliefs, games etc. Which would have taken 11 too much room in the dictionary itself, but to whic a reference is found under the respective words, in their alphabetical order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.