highlandn.adj.
/ˈhʌɪlənd/, U.S. /ˈhaɪlənd/ A. n.
1.
a. Land which is naturally elevated in comparison to the surrounding area; high ground; the mountainous or elevated part of a country. Also: an area of such land, esp. a high headland or cliff.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun]
downlandeOE
downOE
highlandOE
high country1445
wold1472
high ground1489
upland1566
hill-country1582
Chiltern1627
downs country1791
altitude1853
upwold1875
top-land1877
OE Exodus 385 Heahlond stigon sibgemagas, on Seone beorh.
OE Genesis A (1931) 2855 Siððan þu gestigest steape dune, hrincg þæs hean landes.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 377 Þat place is closed wiþ hilles on eiþer side, and haþ a pleyn in þe myddel by twene hiȝe landes [L. inter duos saltus], wiþ streiȝt entrynge and streiȝt out goynge.
1488 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 208/2 The lord Oliphant for the law land of the schirrefdome of Perth, Strathbravn and the bischoprik of Dunkelden. The lord Gray [etc.]..for Angus hie land and law land.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxviii Then he marched towarde the high lande: Then approched a greate nombre of horsemen of Fraunce.
1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 51 You shall hale in by a high land which is called Winge, and there stands fiue Warlocks or Bomes vpon it.
1613 R. Harcourt Relation Voy. Guiana 18 Wio is a faire riuer and leadeth many daies iourney into the high land, and discouereth a firtile and hopefull Countrey.
1670 J. Ogilby America iii. vii. 526 Before the Highland between Cape Frio and the River De Jenero, he discover'd two Sail.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World v. 185 The Sierra, or Highland of Motapa.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 173 He was..to cruise off the highland of Valparaiso.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Hesperides in Poems (new ed.) 101 Beneath a highland leaning down a weight Of cliffs.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. ii. 35 The samn or clarified Beduin butter of this droughty highland is esteemed above other, in Syria.
1913 E. C. Eckel & E. F. Burchard Portland Cement Materials & Industry in U.S. iii. 107 The shell bed at the base of the member is exposed at the edge of the highland near the Columbus-Albrook road.
1973 Nature 23 Mar. 251/2 The Tharsis region, a broad highland standing about 5km above the mean equatorial relief, is the site of major volcanic features on Mars.
2006 R. B. Mandal Water Resource Managem. xxix. 262 Immediate Relief Measures... Construction of houses on the highland near railway.
b. In plural in same sense.In the names of particular districts, perhaps sometimes influenced by sense A. 2.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun] > of a country
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c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 58 [Arthur] Sweys into Swaldye..For to hunt at þe hartes in thas hye laundes.
1578 W. B. tr. Appian of Alexandria Aunc. Hist. Romanes Warres ii. sig. X.iij From Phrygia to the floude Indus, all the highe lands obeyed Seleucus.
1590 H. Roberts Defiance to Fortune sig. M Within short time, they discouer the high landes of the countrie, & within small time after, the citie of Millaine.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) iv. 80 Wet Weather being propitious to High-lands, which drowneth the Low.
1705 C. Purshall Ess. Mechanism Macrocosm xxxiii. 335 Captain Langford's Observation of the reverse of the Wind every Night from the High Lands.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 116 The highlands on the southward of the bay.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. lii. 309 He then advanced toward the highlands of Nura.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ii. 53 When over crags and piny highlands The poising eagle slowly soars.
1917 Bull. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sci. 6 Oct. 66/2 (heading) In the Hudson Highlands... From the southern gateway of the Highlands,..one passes some of the most interesting historic points..along the Hudson River.
1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xxiii. 392 Conditions were thus favorable for rapid erosion of the highlands.
2000 P. Moore Full Montezuma (2001) vi. 79 The ancestors of the Tzotzils and Tzeltals who had moved to these highlands after the collapse of lowland Mayan civilisation.
2. spec. Chiefly and now always with capital initial. With the. The mountainous region of Scotland, situated to the north and west of a notional line drawn from the Firth of Clyde through Crieff to Blairgowrie, then curving to the north-west around the Cairngorms to Nairn; often associated with Gaelic culture and the Scottish Gaelic language. Frequently used loosely for ‘the Highlands and Islands’ (see Phrases). Only in plural in later use.Contrasted with the Lowlands (lowland n. 1a).The Highlands correspond to a region described in either geographical or cultural terms; hence the notional boundaries vary somewhat and are the subject of debate. The Highland line (see Compounds) is usually considered as separating the Highlands and Lowlands in geographical terms. The region is not coextensive with the rather smaller modern administrative division known as Highland Council (which also includes some Lowland areas).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [noun] > of a country > specific
PeakeOE
PeaklandeOE
highland1503
Peak country?1523
piedmont1755
high country1874
altiplano1910
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 273 jc small sparris brocht be him furth of the Hieland.
1547 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 64 As ane cheyf dois in the contreis of the helands.
1561 Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. XXX. f. 79v The personis quha suld paye the samin duellis in the heich land.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Menetum Quhilk is zet vsed in the Hie-lands and Iles of this realme.
a1630 D. Hume Hist. Houses Douglas & Angus (1644) 162 They would needs lay the blame of whatsoever disorder happened in the Countrey upon him; not onely of what fell out in the borders..but even in the Highlands also.
1682 N. Crouch Admirable Curiosities 228 The People of the Highland living on the Western parts of Scotland have some Civility.
1702 in Boyle's Wks. (1772) I. p. cxcii About one half of the ministers in the Highlands..preach only in Irish.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. I. iii. 40 The Kirk..distinguishes the Lowlands from the Highlands by the Language generally spoken.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 507/2 Dunkeld..by the beauty of its situation and its convenience as the point of entrance upon the Highlands.
1885 T. J. Lawrence Ess. Disputed Questions Mod. Internat. Law (rev. ed.) vi. 254 In the Highlands of Scotland it [sc. the practice of private war] lingered till the clans were finally reduced to order after the rebellion of 1745.
1930 ‘A. MacDonald’ Whisky 66 The old single malt whiskies of the Highlands were, on the whole, too powerful and heavy for sedentary town-dwellers.
1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 234/1 Geographically the ‘Highlands of Scotland’ is the name applied to the whole massif north of the Highland Boundary Faults.
2007 C. MacFarlane Real Gorbals Story (2009) xiv. 113 In a 30-year post-war period, Glasgow lost more population than the entire Highlands during the whole century of the Clearances.
B. adj.
1. Chiefly with capital initial.
a. Of or relating to the Scottish Highlands or the people of this region.Recorded earliest in Highlandman n.Highland fling, schottische: see the second element.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [adjective] > highlands
highland1450
Irishc1543
1450 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) 1450/1/3 That consideratioun be had of the helande men the quhilk..commonly reft and slew ilk ane uthir.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ix. l. 1475 Þe Scottis Hielande men, War nere þe wattyr of Ile þen.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 152 Than cryd Mahoun for a heleand padȝane.
?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 377 Nor it had bene ane hieland quow, Lurcane and lowring, I wat not how.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 107 A number of hideous high-land Scots.
1649 J. Milton Observations in Articles of Peace with Irish Rebels 64 A generation of High-land theevs and Red-shanks.
1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 95 He goes Generally in Winter in good thick Rug, and in Summer most part in a Highland Plaid.
1794 R. Burns Let. 3 Mar. (2003) II. 284 Do you know the..old Highland air called ‘The Sutor's dochter’?
1835 W. Irving Abbotsford §5 Around were hung..a Highland broadsword from Floddenfield; a pair of Rippon spurs from Bannockburn.
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxi. 158 Upon the shores of highland lochs.
1920 R. D. Paine Ships across Sea 12 A Highland rosebud like you ought to grow up in the country.
1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 218/2 A plaid about four yards long by 1½ yards in width, is often worn with a Highland cloak or Inverness cape.
2006 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 Jan. 7/1 Scotland's yearlong celebration of Highland culture.
b. Characteristic or typical of the Scottish Highlands or the people of this region.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [adjective] > parts of Scotland
westland1488
Irishc1543
Scottish-Irish?1593
Gallovidian1632
highland1698
Shetlandic1815
Galwegian1870
teuchter1967
1698 Loyalty vindicated 22 Scurilous Untruths, which are delivered with an Highland modesty.
1754 E. Burt Lett. N. Scotl. II. xxiv. 250 The supposed Criminal desired his Prosecutor might be sworn in the Highland Manner.
a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 340 There's naething here but Highland pride, And Highland scab and hunger.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xiii. 272 Ay, he has a kind o' Hieland honesty—he's honest after a sort, as they say.
1871 L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See (1872) I. ii. 58 I'm as Highland as—as—anything.
1918 G. R. Blake Scotl. of Scots iv. 48 The capital of the Highlands is..set in a landscape of purely Highland beauty.
1949 G. B. Shaw Sixteen Self Sketches xiv. 105 My auburn hair was never really Highland red like my sister Agnes's.
2007 A. Smith Girl meets Boy 129 I'm all Highland adrenalin. I'm all teuchter laughter and I'm all teuchter anger.
2. gen. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a highland or highlands.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adjective] > inhabiting high land
uplandsc1330
uplandisha1387
upa1400
highland1595
mountain people1596
mountainous1613
upper1617
upland1622
hilly1632
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > [adjective]
overOE
upa1400
uppera1400
high?a1425
uplandsa1525
uplandish1551
highland1595
upland1610
high country1612
uphill1613
Highlandish1632
uplying1877
1595 A. Duncan Appendix Etymologiae: Index in Latinae Grammaticae Montanus, hieland.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. i. 492 The husbandman keepeth his high-land hay for his cattell which are to be fed, and his low-ground hay for those which worke.
1652 A. Ross Hist. World i. x. 37 Poppaeus Sabinus subdued the High-land Thracians for refusing to muster their best souldiers for the service of the Romans.
a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 212 Our Woodsmen call these flat Grounds High-Land-Ponds.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lxv. 626 The highland robbers were subdued or extirpated.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiv. 199 Merely the highland clouds over the mountains.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 7/1 The Fen agriculturists have stood the depression much better than their high-land neighbours.
1923 A. L. Kroeber Anthropology (1948) 794 Highland Maya, of upland Guatemala.
1951 N.Y. Times 15 Apr. xx. 19/1 The Blue Ridge mountains, from whose heights the flatlander can..understand the lure of highland life.
2010 D. A. Rothery Planets: Very Short Introd. ii. 57 Some Mars scientists see evidence for glaciers, especially at the eroded edges of highland plateaus.
Phrases
the Highlands and Islands: the Highlands and offshore islands of Scotland, esp. considered as a region of similar geography, economy, culture, etc.
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1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 134 Hielandmen, the inhabitants of the Hielands, & Jles of this Realme.]
1765 Principal Acts Gen. Assembly Church of Scotl. 26 May 19 To communicate to the Inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands a more perfect Knowledge of true Religion.
1852 C. M. Yonge Two Guardians xiii. 239 Suppose I was to take him to Marchmont's grouse shooting place in Scotland, and about among the Highlands and Islands.
1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora xvii. 91 Known as mòthan or mòlus, in the Highlands and Islands, Pearlwort has special powers, attributed to the blessing of it by Christ, St Bride, and St Columba.
1992 Stornoway Gaz. 18 Apr. 12/1 Documentary series..which also studies the itinerant lifestyle of fisher lassies from the Highlands and Islands.
2007 Church Times 31 Aug. 14/5 Restaurant food in the Highlands and Islands tends to be a little overworked, but the George Hotel is good for bar food, a pint of Belhaven ale, or a dram.
Compounds
Highland bagpipe n. (also with lower-case initial) a type of bagpipe associated with the Scottish Highlands; spec. one having three drones and a chanter, and a bag which the piper inflates by blowing into a valved blowpipe; also in plural; cf. piob mhor n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe
bagc1275
stivec1290
cornemusec1384
musettea1393
bagpipec1405
pair1422
pipec1450
muse1484
drone1502
lilt-pipea1525
great pipe1592
miskin1593
Highland pipe1599
small-pipes1656
piffero1724
Highland bagpipe1728
zampogna1740
union pipes1788
Lowland pipes1794
pibroch1807
piob mhor1838
gaita1846
sack pipe1889
set1893
biniou1902
uillean pipes1906
1728 Ess. upon Taste & Writings Present Times 30 The Highland Bagpipes ceas'd, and their Musick died at Preston.
1826 W. H. Drummond Bruce's Invasion of Ireland ii. 27 In hall and in bower must thy harp's thrilling sound In the drone of that cursed Highland bagpipe be drowned?
1908 Celtic Monthly Sept. 231/1 As a musical instrument of war, the great Highland Bagpipe, or ‘Piob Mhor’, stands without equal, its shrill and penetrating notes being well suited to the roar and din of the battle.
2004 Time Out N.Y. 16 Dec. 18/2 Don't miss Davy Spillane, whose specialty is the uilleann pipes, a rare Irish cousin of the ubiquitous highland bagpipe with an ethereal sound all its own.
Highland bonnet n. now chiefly historical = Scotch cap n. 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > made from specific material > woollen
Scottish cap1553
blue bonnet1568
blue capa1586
Scotch cap1591
statute cap1598
Monmouth1638
Scotch bonnet1641
Highland bonnet1724
Welsh wig1797
scone1820
glengarry1841
beret1850
Balmoral1857
tam-o'-shanter1884
toboggan cap1886
tammy1894
tam1895
toboggan1907
tam1972
1724 A. Johnston Notitia Anglicana II. 153 Habited in dark Gray, with a red Wastcoat and Highland Bonnet, Azure.
1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 1 June 137/2 The popularity which Highland bonnets acquired from the glory of the Scottish regiments at Waterloo.
1916 E. M. Lloyd Tom Anderson Dare-devil xxii. 195 The Highland bonnet, plaid, and kilt were anything but unbecoming to the youngster.
2008 M. Windrow Osprey Men-at-Arms 155/1 The Ranger of the late 1750's..wears a coat of green frieze cloth, a sleeved waistcoat and a Highland bonnet.
Highland Boundary Fault n. Geology a major geological fault zone extending across Scotland from the Firth of Clyde on the west coast to Stonehaven on the east; cf. Highland fault n.
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1896 43rd Rep. Dept. Sci. & Art Comm. Council Educ. 297 in Parl. Papers (C. 7941) XXX. 1 Further south, towards the Highland boundary-fault, the older granite shows itself in short thick sills and veins.
1901 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. (ed. 3) iii. 64 The line of the Highland boundary fault runs out to sea immediately to the north of Stonehaven.
1929 J. W. Gregory in J. W. Evans & C. J. Stubblefield Handbk. Geol. Great Brit. i. 10 The Middle Devonian age of the Highland Boundary Fault is shown near Loch Lomond.
2003 Scotl. Mag. July 47/1 The National Park is bisected by the Highland Boundary Fault, which divides the Lowlands from the Highlands.
Highland cattle n. small hardy cattle of any of a group of breeds developed in the Scottish Highlands, spec. those of the West Highland breed (see West Highland n. 1).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > breeds of ox > [noun] > of Scotland > Highland cow or cattle
black cattle1725
Highland cattle1751
highlander1771
West Highlander1805
kyloe1811
West Highland1843
1751 J. G. Appeal to Facts 52 They [sc. the people of Scotland] have but two Articles worth naming, first, small Highland Cattle and Sheep bred in the Southern Counties adjoining to England.
1825 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Agric. §6118 Along the eastern coast, north of the Firth of Forth, the Highland cattle are intermixed with various local breeds.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 389/1 The Kyloes or West Highland cattle.
1938 W. Lewis Pictures as Investm.: Straight Talk in Creatures of Habit (1989) 270 Any fool knows that the Highland Cattle type of picture is not worth the canvas it is painted on.
1973 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 26 Feb. 1/1 (advt.) Cattleman required for suckler herd and pedigree Highland cattle.
2003 I. Banks Raw Spirit (2004) vi. 116 I can remember when Highland cattle—also known as hairy coos—were relatively rare sights unless you were deep in the Highlands or way out in the islands.
Highland clearances n. the forced eviction and relocation of crofters in the Scottish Highlands by landlords in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, principally to make way for sheep-farming.
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1845 Atlas 24 May 1/2 Highland Clearances—a process by which proprietors of the Highland districts of Scotland improve their estates and their incomes at the cost of an amount of suffering, physical and moral.
1883 Athenæum 3 Mar. 275 The story of the Highland clearances deserves to be told.
1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 7 From the perspective of the late twentieth century, there seems to be only one possible view of the Highland clearances, as they are called, but contemporary writers often showed different attitudes.
2002 Country Life 19 Dec. 65/1 Ever since the Highland clearances more than 200 years ago, pink politicians have had land reform high on their agenda.
Highland dancing n. a style of dancing based on traditional dances of the Scottish Highlands; spec. competitive (often solo) dancing which usually takes place at Highland Games and other public events.
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1787 Scots Mag. July 360/2 The money collected from the sale of tickets was divided among the other competitors, and such as entertained the company with Highland dancing, between the different parts of the competition.
1840 Athenæum 11 July 553/3 Highland dancing displays incomparable execution, and requires a rapidity of movement which the eye can scarcely follow.
1948 A. Raeburn This is Scotl. 54 There are balls and Highland Games, where tossing the caber, throwing the hammer, Highland dancing and other professional spectacles are arranged.
2014 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 29 Jan. b3 The party will include Highland dancing and bagpipes.
Highland dress n. (originally with the) clothing in the traditional style of the Scottish Highlands, now chiefly worn on formal occasions and including (for men) the kilt and sporran with a jacket or doublet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > for specific people > other
wedding-suit1594
Highland dress1703
ihram1704
Quaker dress1718
cap and gown1853
montuno1941
silks1946
hanbok1952
montuna1955
samfu1955
strip1974
1703 M. Martin Descr. W. Islands Scotl. 270 They speak the Irish Tongue, and wear the Highland Dress.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 23 His piper..has a right to wear the kilt, or antient Highland dress, with the purse, pistol, and durk.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvii. 254 He had laid aside the Highland dress for the time, to put on an old blue and red uniform. View more context for this quotation
1896 Daily Mail 25 May 4/6 Mr. Malcolm..is to appear at all the State functions in full Highland dress.
1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 218/2 Highland dress for everyday wear consists of a kilt,..a tweed jacket..and the bonnet of the Balmoral or Glengarry style.
2007 G. Davidson Perfect Best Man vi. 44 If you and the groom want to wear kilts for the wedding, go to a dress-hire company who are experienced in hiring out Highland dress.
Highland fault n. Geology any geological fault in the Scottish Highlands; spec. (more fully Great Highland fault) = Highland Boundary Fault n.
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1889 A. Geikie in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 35 66 They hold on their way until they reach the highly-inclined beds of sandstone and conglomerate which here lean against the Highland fault in Glen Artney.
1893 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 49 354 The grey slate or phyllite, north of the Great Highland Fault.
1921 G. H. Kinnear Kincardineshire 20 Considering first the solid rocks of the county, we find they are of markedly different character on opposite sides of the Highland Fault.
1980 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 26 285 He then showed the northeast trending Great Glen fault belongs to the same system as several previously recognized much smaller Highland faults.
2003 J. M. Bumsted Canada's Diverse Peoples v. 112 Almost all Scots from north of the Highland fault spoke Gaelic as a first language.
Highland Games n. a meeting for competitions and displays in athletics and traditional Highland music (especially playing the bagpipes) and dancing, held in the Scottish Highlands or by communities of Scottish origin or descent elsewhere.The Highland Games are particularly associated with feats of strength such as tossing the caber and throwing the hammer.
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society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > celebratory games > Highland
Highland gathering1810
Highland Games1822
1822 Caledonian Mercury 22 Aug. (advt.) The Northern Meeting will commence this Year on Wednesday the 2d October... To a variety of amusements, it is intended to revive and add the Ancient Highland Games.
1822 Inverness Jrnl. 4 Oct. One of the spectators of the Highland games, yesterday, was plundered of a gold watch.
1901 Celtic Monthly Oct. 9 The Annual Gathering of the Clan Colquhoun and friends..was held at Luss on the occasion of the Highland Games in July.
1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 310 During the summer, the Highland Games take place across Ontario. The events include tug-of-war, Highland dancing, tossing the caber, and sheep-dog trials.
2001 Times 31 Aug. 14/5 At the Highland Games not a caber stays untossed, nor a pipe unskirled, nor a reel unbirled, nor a keg untapped.
Highland gathering n. = Highland Games n.
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society > leisure > social event > large or public event > [noun] > celebratory games > Highland
Highland gathering1810
Highland Games1822
1810 Eclectic Rev. July 587 The third canto is chiefly occupied with a very interesting and picturesque description of a Highland ‘Gathering’.
1892 Scotsman 14 Sept. 7/1 A somewhat novel departure in Highland gatherings was held yesterday at Oban.
1950 W. R. Bird This is Nova Scotia viii. 250 And there each July the Gaelic Mod and Highland Gathering is held.
2014 Sun (Nexis) 26 Jan. 38 There are haggis hurlers now at Highland gatherings all over the world and the American-Scots in particular take it extremely seriously.
Highland honours n. a ceremonial toast, supposed to reflect traditional Highland custom, drunk at a single draught with one foot on one's chair and the other on the table.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > taken as toast
carouse1599
Highland honours1821
1821 Edinb. Star 2 Feb. 4/4 There is..something so hearty and rapturous in the Highland honours which follow the toasts.
1907 Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inverness 25 35 That showed them that the Chairman's connection with the town was not of yesterday—(loud applause, and Highland honours).
2003 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 24 Feb. 7 We always do the toast to the lassies with full Highland honours.
Highland kilt n. = kilt n. (also as a mass noun and in plural in same sense).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > kilt
filibeg1746
kilt1746
petticoat1754
Highland kilt1803
1803 J. Bristed Ανθρωπλανομενος II. 302 Some other pedestrian travellers were there, clad in Highland kilt.
1853 New Sporting Mag. Sept. 219 The Albanian women wear a sort of highland kilt..of thick woollen cloth.
1920 Princeton Alumni Weekly 1 Dec. 196/2 Dr. James Bishop sends the Class Secretary a stunning picture of himself in Highland kilts.
2007 Times 30 Aug. 3 The Prince of Wales..wore a Highland kilt and a black tie.
Highland line n. (a) (in Scotland) the (notional) dividing line between the Highlands and the Lowlands; (b) Geology = Highland Boundary Fault n.
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1798 Rep. respecting Sc. Distillery Duties App. i. A. 34 The Excise Officers..are authorized to take an Account of the Grain consumed and the Spirits distilled, to grant Permits of the same within the Highland Line.
1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. i. 14 All the way from the border to the Highland line.
1904 Jrnl. Manch. Geogr. Soc. 20 168 Physically to a large extent..the region from the Wall of Hadrian to the Wall of Antoninus, or further to ‘the Highland Line’, as much concerns English as Scottish geography.
1958 Speculum 33 476 Norman-French conquest of England had as a sequel a similar movement of peasant cultivators into parts of Southern Wales, into Scotland below the Highland line, and into the Irish pale.
1985 I. B. Cameron & D. Stephenson Midland Valley of Scotl. (ed. 3) i. 1 The physiographic contrast across the Highland line is a consequence of the difference in the resistance to erosion of the rocks on either side of the fault.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 16 Aug. 11 Scots are different from each other, depending on which side of the Highland line—that 420 million-year-old geological fault line from Loch Lomond to the north-east—they originated.
Highland piper n. a piper from the Scottish Highlands; a person who plays the Highland bagpipe.
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1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 418 Edmond Broun, ane Hieland pyper.
1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle ii. i. 12 Had the Landlady but a Highland Piper to joyn with 'em, she might set up for a Collection of Monsters.
1780 J. Hope Thoughts 123 A Highland Piper, having a scholar to teach, disdained, with the stilts of semibreves, minimums, crotchets, and quavers, to break his head.
1819 W. Scott Let. 15 Apr. (1933) V. 348 The most extraordinary recipe was that of my Highland piper, John Bruce, who spent a whole Sunday in selecting twelve stones from twelve south running streams, with the purpose that I should sleep upon them.
1961 Boys' Life Oct. 34/1 With heads erect and the sun flashing from their brightly polished brooches, the Highland Pipers march briskly by the reviewing stand.
2012 N.Y. Mag. 3 Dec. 66/5 Highland piper Ben Kemper has been squeezing since he was 11 years old—and for $50 an hour, he'll give private lessons in his Williamsburg apartment.
Highland pipe n. (also with lower-case initial) = Highland bagpipe n.; also in plural. Cf. great pipe n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e, piob mhor n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > bagpipe
bagc1275
stivec1290
cornemusec1384
musettea1393
bagpipec1405
pair1422
pipec1450
muse1484
drone1502
lilt-pipea1525
great pipe1592
miskin1593
Highland pipe1599
small-pipes1656
piffero1724
Highland bagpipe1728
zampogna1740
union pipes1788
Lowland pipes1794
pibroch1807
piob mhor1838
gaita1846
sack pipe1889
set1893
biniou1902
uillean pipes1906
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. F2v On hieland pypes Scots, and Hibernik, Let heir the shraichs of deadly Clarions.
1794 J. Ritson in Scotish Song I. cxiv. (note) The merit of originality, it must be confessed, appears due to the highland pipe.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 53 It heartens me..like the skirling of the Highland pipes!
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) I. 345/2 The Highland pipe..now consists of a sheepskin bag into which are tied five stocks, which accommodate the three drones and the chanter with their reeds, and the blowpipe.
2003 Dirty Linen Feb. 12/4 Jimmy Mitchell plays shuttle pipes and Highland pipes.
highland plover n. chiefly U.S. (now rare) the upland sandpiper, Bartramia longicauda, a large migratory sandpiper which breeds in open country in northern North America.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > bartramia longicauda (Bartram's sandpiper)
highland plover1839
prairie plover1851
prairie snipe1851
prairie pigeon1874
1839 J. J. Audubon Synopsis Birds N. Amer. 231 Tringa Bartramia, Wils. Bartramian Sandpiper.—Highland Plover. Papabote.
1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 172 At Bath and Portland..Highland Plover.
1941 Colorado: Guide to Highest State (Federal Writers' Project) (1948) 19 Desert horned lark and the highland plover..are common on the plains.
Highland pony n. a breed of small hardy pony originally developed in the Scottish Highlands and Islands for farm work; a pony of this breed.The breed as currently recognized was developed in the late 19th cent.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds
Frison?a1400
jennet1463
garron1540
Galloway1598
ghoonta1613
Goonhilly1640
forester1712
yabu1753
Highland pony1768
Narragansett pacer1777
Suffolk punch1784
Nubian1790
Cleveland bay1796
cob1818
Conestoga1824
marsh tacky1826
Narragansett1826
Russian pony1829
Clydesdale1831
Turkoman1831
Morgan1841
tarpan1841
Waler1849
Percheron1855
Canuck1860
Anglo-Arabian1864
Anglo-Arab1869
Belgium1878
Palouse1881
standardbred1888
Belgium draught horse1889
saddlebred1891
Timor pony1895
Haflinger1899
Argentine1901
Belgian1907
palomino1914
Appaloosa1924
Trakehner1926
Lipizzaner1928
Tennessee walking horse1938
Bhotia1939
cremello1944
Akhal-Teke1947
Palouse horse1947
Tennessee walker1960
Falabella1977
1768 Lynn Mag. 83 Sir John Turner's Butiful Highland Poney, General Warrants, C. T. Rider in Black and all Black.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. viii. 229 The Baillie, thus refreshed, was mounted on a small Highland poney.
1937 J. Macdonald Highland Ponies 39 For several years the Department of Agriculture for Scotland has been supplying Highland pony stallions for the use of the crofters.
2009 Press & Jrnl. (Aberdeen) (Nexis) 22 Aug. 26 Wiltshire-based Ms Briant produces ridden Highland ponies for the Queen.
Highland regiment n. now historical (in the British Army) any of a number of regiments originally raised in and recruited from the Scottish Highlands, whose members are entitled to wear Highland dress.In 2006, the Highland regiments became battalions of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
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a1690 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Fourth Pt. (1701) II. xxxi. 1305 The old Highland Regiment that was about Edinburgh is dispatched to Sterling.
1796 J. Williamson Treat. Mil. Finance (new ed.) i. 5 In 1787,..5 Highland regiments were raised and sent to the East-Indies.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 51/1 The 109 regiments of the line include 12 Highland regiments, and the first twenty-five have 2 battalions each.
1916 ‘Platoon Commander’ With my Regiment from Aisne to La Bassée i. 11 There was an officer in a Highland regiment,..a splendid-looking fellow, with his kilt and gaily cocked glengarry.
2005 G. Graham Trees are all Young on Garrison Hill iii. 21 Those who rationalized the army in the second half of the 20th century..underestimated the emotional impact of their reorganizations, especially on Highland regiments.
Highland terrier n. any of a group of breeds of terrier descended from working terriers of the Scottish Highlands and Islands; a dog of such a breed; cf. highlander n. 6 and West Highland n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > terrier > [noun] > West Highland terrier
Highland terrier1777
Poltalloch1887
West Highland1904
West Highlander1907
highlander1912
westie1949
1777 Daily Advertiser 13 Nov. 2/2 Lost a small Highland Terrier Dog, of a yellowish Colour, answers to the Name of Aster; he has cropt Ears, a curling Tail, and some black Hairs about his Face and Mouth.
1846 C. St. John Short Sketch Highlands xiv. 113 Why do Highland terriers so often run on three legs?.. I never had a Highland terrier who did not hop along constantly on three legs.
1926 S. R. Speelman & J. O. Williams Breeds of Dogs (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1491) 34 It has been assumed by some that the ‘Scottie’ is one of several native breeds of terriers which have a sprung from a common foundation stock, the Highland Terrier.
2001 S. L. Vanderlip Sc. Terriers 6/2 In each glen, people developed individual strains of Highland Terriers with characteristics that suited their particular hunting needs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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