Word Meanings - BIRTHLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of mean extraction. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to BIRTHLESS)

• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• EXTRACTION
  1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth;
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.