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Scotch pebble
(gcide) | Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. Scottish.]
Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
inhabitants; Scottish.
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Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.
Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zool.), the bufflehead; --
called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman.
Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott.
Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.
Scotch nightingale (Zool.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.]
Scotch pebble. See under pebble.
Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.
Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Onopordon
acanthium}); -- so called from its being the national
emblem of the Scotch.
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Scotch pebble
(gcide) | Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
mote. See Stone.]
1. A small roundish piece of stone; especially, a stone worn
and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The
pebbles on the hungry beach." --Shak.
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As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
--Milton.
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2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
pebble; -- so called by opticians.
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Pebble powder, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
grains.
Scotch pebble, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.
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