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Malcolm

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Eldest son of Duncan, King of Scotland. He was called Can-More (Great-head), and succeeded Macbeth (1056). (Shakespeare: Macbeth.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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