Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Abusive speech: as, “bakbitynge and bismer,”
- noun A person worthy of scorn.
- noun A balance or steelyard used in the northeast of Scotland, and in the Orkney and Shetland islands.
- noun The name in the Orkney islands of the sea-stickleback, Spinachia vulgaris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A rule steelyard.
- noun (Zoöl.) The fifteen-spined (
Gasterosteus spinachia ).
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