Darien Scheme, a project to plant a colony on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus, which was so far carried out that some 1200 left Scotland in 1698 to establish it, but which ended in disaster, and created among the Scotch, who were the chief sufferers, an animus against the English, whom they blamed for the disaster, an animus which did not for long die out.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Darien, Gulf of * Darius I.