资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. {Scottish}.]
   Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
   inhabitants; Scottish.

   {Scotch broom} (Bot.), the {Cytisus scoparius}. See {Broom}.
      

   {Scotch dipper}, or {Scotch duck} (Zo["o]l.), the bufflehead;
      -- called also {Scotch teal}, and {Scotchman}.

   {Scotch fiddle}, the itch. [Low] --Sir W. Scott.

   {Scotch mist}, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.

   {Scotch nightingale} (Zo["o]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov.
      Eng.]

   {Scotch pebble}. See under {pebble}.

   {Scotch pine} (Bot.) See {Riga fir}.

   {Scotch thistle} (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Onopordon
      acanthium}); -- so called from its being the national
      emblem of the Scotch.

Pebble \Peb"ble\, n. [AS. papolst[=a]n; cf. L. papula pimple,
   mote. See {Stone}.]
   1. A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone
      worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone.
      ``The pebbles on the hungry beach.'' --Shak.

            As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
                                                  --Milton.

   2. Transparent and colorless rock crystal; as, Brazilian
      pebble; -- so called by opticians.

   {Pebble powder}, slow-burning gunpowder, in large cubical
      grains.

   {Scotch pebble}, varieties of quartz, as agate, chalcedony,
      etc., obtained from cavities in amygdaloid.