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Handsel

on 28th Dec 2008

HANDSEL n A gift bestowed to commemorate an inaugural occasion, event or season.

The beginning of the year, the first visit to a friend's new home, the start of an undertaking or ...

YULE n Christmas

on 22nd Dec 2008

Yule was once a busy term day for the delivery of goods or financial dealings such as the pension recorded in The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland (1562-3) “The said yeirlie pensioun ... t...

Hollin n. holly, a holly tree

on 15th Dec 2008

Now is the time of year for doing as Sir Walter Scott suggests in The Antiquary (1816): “Make your merrymen gather the thorn, and the briar, and the green hollin”. Whether you attribute to holli...

Messan n. a small pet dog, a lap-dog.

on 07th Dec 2008

This word was borrowed into Scots from Gaelic ‘measan’ and has found its way into some very intriguing quotations in the Dictionary of the Scots Language. Although James Dalrymple (1596) tells u...

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