Scotch的意思|Scotch的解释-里氏词典

Scotch \Scotch\, n.
A chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping;
as, a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground.

Scotch \Scotch\, v. t. [Probably the same word as scutch; cf.
Norw. skoka, skoko, a swingle for flax; perhaps akin to E.
shake.]
To cut superficially; to wound; to score.

We have scotched the snake, not killed it. --Shak.

{Scotched collops} (Cookery), a dish made of pieces of beef
or veal cut thin, or minced, beaten flat, and stewed with
onion and other condiments; -- called also {Scotch
collops}. [Written also {scotcht collops}.]

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.

Scotch \Scotch\, n.
1. The dialect or dialects of English spoken by the people of
Scotland.

2. Collectively, the people of Scotland.

Scotch \Scotch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scotched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Scotching}.] [Cf. Prov. E. scote a prop, and Walloon ascot a
prop, ascoter to prop, F. accoter, also Armor. skoaz the
shoulder, skoazia to shoulder up, to prop, to support, W.
ysgwydd a shoulder, ysgwyddo to shoulder. Cf. {Scoat}.]
[Written also {scoatch}, {scoat}.]
To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc.,
as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping.

Scotch \Scotch\, n.
A slight cut or incision; a score. --Walton.

But, over a glass of Glenlivet Scotch, he is delighted to recite Shakespeare.
Guinness also could face a legal fight to regain the disputed ownership of the Dewar's Scotch whisky trademark from Schenley Industries Inc.
As with the brewers, though, there might be a case for Scotch banks combining.
He'll throw back a Scotch, scratch his crotch and move across the stage in a cowboy's loping amble. Then he'll hunker down on his haunches to tell a ribald story in a broad Texas drawl.
Its success is based on an increasing thirst for Bass ale in the US and Spain, and Tennent's lager in Italy. Scotch whisky was the mainstay of the international spirits groups' performance.
The company will bottle up to 30,000 cases of Scotch a year, and another 30,000 cases of blends with locally-made alcohol.
In June, Guinness announced a joint venture with Moet-Hennessy S.A. of Paris to distribute Guinness's Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky and Tanqueray gin brands, and Moet & Chandon champagne and Hennessy cognac, in the U.S.
"Everybody was congratulating everybody else, and the Scotch was flowing like water."
Over 90 per cent of its production goes overseas. 'Inver House is leading the second wave in the growth of the Scotch whisky overseas market,' says Mr Bill Robison, the company's chairman and chief executive.
Guinness's purchase of most of Dallas-based Schenley apparently would end the threat of a legal battle over the ownership of the Dewar's Scotch whisky trademark.
Clive won the National Book Award in 1974 for "Scotch Reviewers and Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian."
But overall, Mr. Barsby says, total Scotch sales fell about 7% last year to 14.1 million cases.
Lonrho, a British industrial group made up of more than 800 companies, said its results reflected better performance in its hotel, Scotch whisky and motor-vehicle operations.
What was consumed in great quantity was liquor in all its forms, home-brewed beer, bathtub gin, local corn likker, and when there was a little money available some allegedly imported Scotch "right off the boat."
Unlike other countries, Japan does not tax by alcoholic content but according to a grading system that places foreign products like Scotch in the high-tax top grade.
The House of Seagram, for instance, is spending an estimated $3 million to $4 million on offbeat ads for Chivas Regal Scotch whisky and Crown Royal Canadian whisky.
Roh, who arrived in Britain on Monday, made no mention of the issue in his lunch-time address in which he announced an unspecified reduction in South Korean import tariff on Scotch whisky.
Guinness, a brewer, also makes Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky and Gordon's gin.
You started drinking Scotch.
Even if it avoids these costly legal battles, the concern still faces the challenge of reviving the flagging sales of Scotch whisky, Distillers' main money-maker.
Brands such as Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky were being refurbished, repackaged and repositioned.
Johnson said growers averaged about $12 per tree last year, while wholesale prices averaged about $20. Most trees _ Douglas fir and Scotch pine _ retailed for $3 to $3.50 per foot.
Helping to sponsor the survey was Paddington Corp., importers and marketers of J&B Scotch whisky.
Later, Guinness avoided government intervention on antitrust grounds by agreeing to sell the marketing rights to certain marginally profitable brands of Scotch.
Mr. Willhoft buys media space for clients such as J&B Scotch and Range Rover, suitable but as yet uncommitted advertisers to Connoisseur.
Among its advertisers are Chivas Regal Scotch and Pontiac LeMans.
"Someone put Scotch tape on these pages," she said. "They thought they were doing the right thing, keeping a tear from worsening." The glue from the tape eventually ate through the old paper.
She used to pour her late husband's Scotch into empty mustard and ketchup jars so she could have the empties.
'The findings were accepted by the Japanese government in 1989, but little has changed since then.' Japan is the world's fourth largest Scotch whisky export market after the US, France and Spain.
The English and the Scotch Scottish were more down to earth, hinting at assignations and adventures perhaps, but set into a known and closely observed everyday, albeit exotic world.

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