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ii. 48 ; remarks on his writings, 126 ; his heroines,
142, 257, 313 ; and Tennyson, 146, 376 ; false
quantities in his poems, 185 ; at Milan, 408 ; his
brother's grave at Quebec, 445 ; his use of " lyke-
wake " and " late-wake " iii. 3 ; and a Greek
epigram, iii. 346, 434; iv. 31, 134; ix. 331; and
Washington Irving, iv. 108 ; " As fu's the Baltic,"
336; his Scottish dialect, iv. 242, 330, 421, 503;
v. 95 ; and the Rutherford family, iv. 268 ; " And
still beneath the cavern dread," iv. 518 ; v. 51;
"No deaf nuts," v. 316, 399; and Carlyle on
laughter, vi. 226 ; medallion of, 229, 332, 391; and
Waverley Abbey, 247 ; a contemporary on, 301,
396 ; misquotation from, 447; grave charge against,
viii. 362 ; on conscience, 420 ; and Wilkie, x. 129,
235, 315, 378 ; medallion of, 236 ; ' Moredun '
attributed to, 448, 477; and 'The Corsicana,' xi.
487
1 Antiquary,' description of sunset, i. 267, 454 ; ii. 55; work alluded to, ii. 347; iii. 198; " Hell-in -Harness," xi. 187
'Ballad of Rosabelle,' v. 149, 273
' Bridal of Triermain,' and a "famous picture," i. 404; ii. 154
' Bride of Lammermoor,' " Liggeram Cosh " in, ii. 508
' Fair Maid of Perth,' " Another for Hector 1 " vi. 251, 372
Field of Waterloo,' lines in, vi. 106
' Fortunes of Nigel,' " On the viretot," vii. 510 ; viii. 48, 1 30 ; " Moonshine in water," xi. 332
- Guy Mannering,' Gilbert or G-uilbert G-lossin in,
ii. 527 ; iii. 34 ; error in, iii. 188, 429, 493 ;
iv. 52 ; shuttles in, vi. 407, 477 ' Heart of Midlothian,' curious " choriasmus "
in, i. 225, 305, 390 ; "Echoes of Ben Nevis,"
426 ; " deistical Miss Katies," viii. 403, 453 ;
"Colour o' moonshine in the water": "Sky- blue acarlet," xi. 332 ' Ivanhoe,' " Tring, Wing, and Ivinghoe," iv. 1 J 2 ;
shield of brawn in, v. 247, 360, 445 ; trysting
oak in, viii. 42, 152 ' Lord of the Isles,' " winged Skye," i. 6, 75, 150,
216 ' Marmion,' Till and Tweed, iii. 324 ; Cottiswold
in, xii. 506 1 Monastery,' " I live by my mill, God bless her ! "
viii. 163, 331 ' Pirate,' song 'The Pirate's Farewell,' music by
Mrs. Arkwright, xi. 498 ' Redgauntlet, ' "trances" in, iii. 267; Lord
Bladderskate, xi. 336
' Rob Roy,' original of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, vi. 489 ' St. Ronan's Well,' Pidcock and Polito in, vi.
387, 437; "bagman" in, xi. 338
- Waverley,' error in, iii. 468
' Woodstock,' notes on, x. 65, 170, 252, 515; and
' The Good Devil of Woodstock,' xi. 370 Waverley Novels : duels in, i. 42, 169, 330 ; notes on, 183, 394 ; allusions to the porter's lodge, i. 198 ; ii. 135 ; iv. 314 ; descriptive surnames in, ii. 464 ; iii. 92 ; early issues, v. 181 ; illus- trations of, 372
Scott (William Bell), passage in ' Autobiography,' xii. 126
Scott (W. R.), his biography, ii. 328
Scotter family, ii. 9
Scottish. See also Scotch.
Scottish army, documents relating to, iv. 288, 355
Scottish burial custom, ancient, vi. 307, 375
Scottish College at Rome, x. 148
Scottish dialect and Sir Walter Scott, iv. 242, 330,
421, 503 ; v. 95
Scottish university graduates, list of, viii. 22 Scotus on cradle chimney, x. 208. Stuart (Charles),
iii. 387
Scouring, field-name, i. 286, 411 Scouring of land, ii. 78, 238 Scrap-book, old, extracts from, i. 222 Scraps, pasted, how to detach them, xi. 110, 195, 314 Scratch : " Old Scratch," use of the term, xii. 14 Scrimanski, in < Hudibras,' iii. 169, 358 Scripture, quotations from, and Carlyle, ix. 207 Scrope (Adrian), the regicide, his pedigree, v. 495 ;
vi. 54 Scrope (Simon Thomas), claimant to the earldom of
Wiltes, iv. 184, 231 Scrutator on Fahrenheit thermometer, v. 229. Uphill
zigzag, vii. 388 Scudamore (Sir Clement), Sheriff of London 1605-6,
vii. 269, 373
Scudamore (Frank Ives), his poems, xii. 228 Sculptor, automatic, invented, xii. 408 Sculptors, English, their monumental work, i. 74 ;
queries about, i. 207, 272 Sculpture, memorial figure, i. 74 Sdeyns, its etymology, vi. 347, 434, 476 Sea, its pronunciation, ix. 413 Sea, rights and royalties of the, iv. 309, 428 Sea beggars, origin of the term, ix. 449 Seaborne (G.) on portrait of Sir R. Cotton, xi. 254 , Seaborne family, xi. 248
Seaforth Highlanders and the MacRaes, v. 412 Sea-horse in 1897, i. 345 Seal, inscription on, its meaning, ix. 329 Seal and owner, x. 487 Seal engraver, vi. 389
Seal of the Great Steward of Scotland, ix. 205 Seally (A. St. J.) on Bristol and Glasgow, viii. 225 Seals, eating of, i. 305; ii. 313, 397, 533 ; iii. Ill ;
best way of obtaining impressions, iii. 169, 333,
412 ; casts of ancient, v. 288, 402; history of, vii.
189
Seaman (John), LL.D., his biography, iii. 428 Seaman and Button families, vii. 408, 513 ; viii. 67 Seannachie, Gaelic word, its etymology, xi. 186, 277 f
356
Search (F.) on Leatherhead Bridge, Surrey, viii. 185 Searcher on metempsychosis among the Swedes, ix. 187 Searle (W. G.) on Cheltenham, i. 397 Seas, within the four, ii. 421, 534 Seasalter, place-name, its origin, ix. 189, 417 Seats reserved in the House of Commons, xii. 376 Seccombe (T.) on Benjamin Thorpe, i. 507 Second chamber, application of the term to House of
Lords, viii. 385
Seconds as a measure of time, ii. 509 ; iii. 16, 71, 136 Sedan chairs, in Scotland, ii. 165, 351 ; in Chichester,
195 ; in use in 1858, vi. 452 Sedge. See Acorus calamus.