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Brewer's: Redgauntlet

The sobriquet of Fitz-Aldin, given him from the great slaughter which he made of the Southron, and his reluctance to admit them to quarter. The sobriquet was adopted by him as a surname,…

Brewer's: Wandering Willie

or Willie Steenson. The blind fiddler who tells the tale of Redgauntlet. (SirWalterScott. Redgauntlet. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Redding-straik

(A). A blow received by a peacemaker, who interferes between two combatants to red or separate them; proverbially, the severest blow a man can receive. “Said I not to ye, `Make not, meddle…

Brewer's: Redlaw

(Mr). The haunted man, professor of chemistry in an ancient college. Being haunted, he bargained with his spectre to leave him, and the condition imposed was that Redlaw (go where he would…

Scott, Sir Walter

(Encyclopedia) Scott, Sir Walter, 1771–1832, Scottish novelist and poet, b. Edinburgh. He is considered the father of both the regional and the historical novel. Scott's narrative poems…

Brewer's: Cat-lap

Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap. “A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Heart-whole

Not in love; the affections not given to another. “I in love? ... I give you my word I am heartwhole,” —SirW.Scott: Redgauntlet (letter 13). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Meridian

(A). A noonday dram of spirits. “He received from the hand of the waiter the meridian, which was placed ready at the bar.” —SirWalterScott: Redgauntlet, chap. i. Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Moulds

In the moulds. In the grave. “After Sir John and her [the minister's wife] were ... baith in the moulds.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet (Letter xi.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Remis atque Velis

(Latin). With oars and sails. Tooth and nail; with all despatch. “We were going remis atque velis into the interests of the Pretender, since a Scot had presented a Jacobite at court.” —…