(n.) A kind of medicine to be taken by licking with the tongue; a lambative; a lincture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(2) I certainly wouldn't have been able to tell you the difference between palaeontologists searching for ancient bones, and the search for the Loch Ness Monster.
(3) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
(4) From here the view is breathtaking; looking down on Loch Coruisk and tiny sandy beaches below all ringed by the looming jagged peaks of the Cuillin.
(5) At one stage, more than 60 train passengers were stranded on the West Highland line after it was closed down near Crianlarich, north of Loch Lomond.
(6) The next time Tobin bumped into Issing, he said cheerfully: "Here I am, the Loch Ness monster still!"
(7) At their furthest edges, the lochs' peaty brown water laps against fields and hills that form a natural amphitheatre; a landscape peppered with giant rings of stone, chambered cairns, ancient villages and other archaeological riches.
(8) Some wintry precipitation is expected for most areas too, mostly in the form of scattered showers, leading to lying snow and icy stretches.” The coldest temperature of -11.2C was measured at Loch Glascarnoch, in Scotland, beating the previous record low this winter of -9C, set on 27 December in Cromdale, Moray.
(9) This path was built to link the tiny fishing settlements along the edge of the loch and allow the precious cargo of "silver darlings" to be carried ashore.
(10) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(11) In a small number of areas, we found that after the merger the parties would operate pubs in close proximity without facing sufficient competition from rivals and we are concerned this could lead to a rise in the price of food or drink or a reduction in the quality of those pubs.” Greene King, which brews Old Speckled Hen and Abbott Ale and operates chains such as Hungry Horse and Loch Fyne, said it intended to offer concessions to meet CMA concerns.
(12) At least two centuries after the species was hunted to extinction in the UK, three beaver families have been released into three lochs in forest unpopulated by people near the Sound of Jura in Argyll.
(13) 4 Turn right on to a solid path, climb past St Margaret's loch and the ruin of St Anthony's chapel.
(14) The Lochranza hotel overlooks the castle and loch and has a vast selection of malt whiskeys.
(15) Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Loch Caoldair, Laggan, Western Cairngorms There are thousands of lochs in Scotland, and open access laws mean you can swim in virtually all of them.
(16) Though Scotland is a land of lochs, it's not known for its bathing.
(17) Whereas Campbell Toun Loch caters for the solitary, late-night drinker, Marugin attracts lively early-evening groups, eating, smoking and knocking back highballs.
(18) The first submarines of the US’s Polaris fleet arrived at their new base in the Holy Loch a few months later, and came and went in relays until the cold war was over, overlapping for a time with the Royal Navy’s missile submarines that had begun to sail from their headquarters at Faslane, a few miles across the Clyde in the Gare Loch.
(19) It also sets a great example – my three-year-old has now collected finisher’s medals at Ironkids and Loch Ness Marathon and loves being outside because that’s what mummy and daddy do.
(20) But think how fascinating the idea of a loch monster is.
Lochan
Definition:
(n.) A small lake; a pond.
Example Sentences:
(1) • www.forestry.gov.uk ; forest-festival.com sandygoodwill Glencoe Lochan, Glencoe Undemanding forest trail walks around an amazingly serene lochan, which provides spectacular reflections of the surrounding woodland.
(2) A lochan nestles in the centre of the wood surrounded by majestic conifers and rugged mountains.
(3) The next day we were high up on towers of Torridon sandstone looking out over valleys and lochans to the sea and the Outer Isles and nothing seemed to have changed.
(4) Some cattle, lying in the road, slowly struggled to their feet and wandered a few steps into a tiny lochan by the roadside, and the only other movements were the ripples lapping on the beach and the flight of the gulls.