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Letter-Gae

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The precentor is called by Allen Ramsay “The Letter-gae of haly rhyme.” “Holy rhyme” means hymns or chants.

“There were no sae mony hairs on the warlock’s face as there’s on Letter-gae’s ain at this moment.”—Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xi.

 

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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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Lesbian Rule (The)
Lese Majesty
Lessian Diet
Lestrigons
Let
Let Drive (To)
Let us Eat and Drink; for tomorrow we shall Die (Isaiah xxii. 13)
Lethe
Lethean Dew
Letter-Gae
Letter-lock
Letter of Credit
Letter of Licence (A)
Letter of Marque
Letter of Orders (A)
Letter of Pythagoras (The)
Letter of Safe Conduct
Letter of Uriah (2 Sam, xi. 14)
Letters
Letters