Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A seal or sea-calf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Zoöl.), Scotch A seal.
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Examples
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` ` I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport, '' said the wanderer; ` ` I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; --- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster '' ------
The Antiquary 1845
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I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier
The Antiquary 1845
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I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a _phoca, _ or seal (_sealgh, _ our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural _gh_), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier -- Marry, my lord, the _phoca_ had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a _phoca, _ or seal (_sealgh, _ our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural _gh_), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier -- Marry, my lord, the _phoca_ had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; -- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" --
The Antiquary — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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You may as well try to whistle a sealgh out of the Solway, as to get hold of one of them till all the fray is over. '
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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"I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport," said the wanderer; "I want to see what they're saying there about the invasion; -- but I'll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster" --
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I saw him today engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier — Marry, my lord, the phoca had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks.
The Antiquary 1584
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You may as well try to whistle a sealgh out of the Solway, as to get hold of one of them till all the fray is over.’
Redgauntlet 2008
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“I maun be ganging my ways back to Fairport,” said the wanderer; “I want to see what they’re saying there about the invasion; — but I’ll mind what your honour says, no to speak to you about a sealgh, or to the Captain about the hundred pounds that you gied to Douster” — “Confound thee! —
The Antiquary 1584
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