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Ocʹhiltree (Edie)

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A gaberlunzie man or blue-coat beggar, in Sir Walter Scott’s Antiquary. The original of this bedesman was Andrew Gemmelles.

 

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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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Obstacle Race (An)
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Obverse (The)
Oby
Occam (William of)
Occam’s Razor
Occasion
Occult Sciences
Oceana
Ochiltree (Edie)
Octavian
Octavo
Ocypus
Od
Odd Numbers
Odd and Even
Odd’s or Od’s
Odds
Ode
Odhærir