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Hebridean, a. and n.|hɛbrɪˈdiːən, hɪˈbrɪdɪən|
Also 6–9 -ian.
[f. Hebrides, an alteration, said to have originated in an accidental misprint, of L. Hebudes (Pliny), Gr. Ἕβουδαι (Ptolemy).]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Hebrides, a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of the Hebrides.
1623Cockeram, Hebridean wave, the Irish sea. 1632Lithgow Trav. 494 The desperate courage of these awfull Hebridians. 1641in J. Sylvester tr. Du Bartas's Weeks 331/1 Hebridian Wave, the Sea about the Isles Hiberides, to the North from Ireland. 1775Johnson West. Isl. 221 Such intelligence the Hebridians probably receive from their transmarine correspondents. 1780J. Johnstone (title) Anecdotes of Olave the Black, King of Man, and the Hebridian Princes of the Somerled Family. 1810Scott Fam. Lett. 10 June (1894) I. 181, I intend to take the Hebridian character and scenery..for my subject. 1828J. Tytler Hist. Scot. I. i. 29 Dugal and other Hebridean chiefs. 1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 561/1 The Zetland Isles, which are in some measure to be viewed as a prolongation to the Hebridian group. a1856H. Miller Cruise Betsey (1858) vi. 90 The penetrating powers of a true Hebridean drizzle. 1887H. B. Woodward Geol. Eng. & Wales (ed. 2) 38 The Lewisian (or Hebridean) group. 1897R. H. Story Apostolic Ministry Scot. Church v. 154 The beehive cells, the remains of which may still be seen in Eilean Naomh and other Hebridean isles. 1911Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 416/1 The oldest rocks of Scotland and of the British Isles are known..as Archean, and consist chiefly of gneiss (called..Lewisian and Hebridean). 1926Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 577/2 Our comely Hebridean. 1972Daily Tel. 29 Jan. 16/5 The Hebridean processes of cloth-treatment are in danger of falling into oblivion. |