Lexicographical Neighbors of Kelties
Literary usage of Kelties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"Are ye a' cleared kellie off Fill anither. Here's to his being sune Provost" Rob
Roy, Ш. 32. kelties, i. pi. Children, Ang. Sa. ..."
2. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Benjamin Vincent, Joseph Haydn (1906)
"... return to o Dec 1892 )tt kelties" Partition of Africa" published, Mr. W.
Cotton Oswell, discoverer of lake Ac., a companion of Livingstone, aged 75, ..."
3. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"Cleared keltie off, a phrase used to denote tbat one's glass is quite empty,
previously to drinking a bumper, S. Rob Roy. kelties, ».pi. Children, Ang.—Su. ..."
4. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"kelties, Feb. 1776, v. Sup. 387, and other cases there. Where the bankrupt was
in the sanctuary, the Court in one case ordered the books and papers to be ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"kelties.JP?. Children, Ang. Su.G /.ai'!- a boy. КЕМ BIT, ». The pith of hemp, Ayr».
Gael. < .linn/I, hemp. To KEME, vo To comb. ..."
6. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1876)
"The kelties of the Chinese says Mr. Bell, (who lodged out.1 day in a cook's house
near Pekin,) " uro indeed very thin, and made of cast iron, ..."
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