A Dictionary of the Scottish Language

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Containing an Explanation of the Words Used by the Most Celebrated Ancient and Modern Scottish AuthorsThese changes have taken place in langua ges possessing every advantage requisite for ensuring stability. They had standards to which they could appeal in cases of doubt, ci ther with regard to the construction of a sen tence, the purity of mphrase, or' the meaning of a word, they Were the written languages (if the most polite authors, they were spoken in courts, and in public assemblies, they were the languages of the bar and the theatre, yet, notwithstanding, the number of obsolete ex pressions are infinitely greater than what one would be apt to imagine, without examination, and not a. Few words have undergone a com pleta alteration in their significations.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.