CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Domain	Definition
Literature	Curse of Scotland The nine of diamonds. The two most plausible suggestions are these: (1) The nine of diamonds in the game of Pope Joan is called the Pope, the Antichrist of the Scotch reformers. (2) In the game of comette, introduced by Queen Mary, it is the great winning card, and the game was the curse of Scotland because it was the ruin of so many families. Other suggestions are these. (3) The word "curse" is a corruption of cross, and the nine of diamonds is so arranged as to form a St. Andrew's Cross; but as the nine of hearts would do as well, this explanation must be abandoned. (4) Some say it was the card on which the "Butcher Duke" wrote his cruel order after the Battle of Culloden; but the term must have been in vogue at the period, as the ladies nicknamed Justice-Clerk Ormistone "The Nine of Diamonds" (1715). (5). Similarly, we must reject the suggestion that it refers to the arms of Dalrymple, Earl of Stair - viz. or, on a saltire azure, nine lozenges of the first. The earl was justly held in abhorrence for the massacre of Glencoe; so also was Colonel Packer, who attended Charles I. on the scaffold, and had for his arms "gules a cross lozengy or." Grose says of the nine of diamonds: "Diamonds ... imply royalty ... and every ninth King of Scotland has been observed for many ages to be a tyrant and a curse to the country." - Tour Thro' Scotland, 1789. It is a pity that Grose does not give the names of these kings. Malcolm III. was assassinated in 1046 by Macbeth, William was taken prisoner by Henry II. (died 1214), James I. was assassinated in 1437. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	CURSE OF SCOTLAND. The nine of diamonds; diamonds, it is said, imply royalty, being ornaments to the imperial crown; and every ninth king of Scotland has been observed for many ages, to be a tyrant and a curse to that country. Others say it is from its si. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression: CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Anagrams: CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-f-l-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: cotransduces.
	-4 letters: conductress, cotransduce, forestlands.
	-5 letters: artfulness, cocounsels, cofounders, concluders, concordats, concourses, conductors, consulates, consulters, consultors, coruscated, coruscates, counselors, courantoes, courtesans, croustades, decontrols, desolators, doctorless, forestland, loadstones, nucleators, ostracodes, outclassed, outcrossed, outlanders, outscorned, scoundrels, slanderous, sulfonated, sulfonates, transduces, transfused, treasonous, underclass, undercoats, undercools.
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Alternative Orthography: CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 55 52 53 45 4F 46 53 43 4F 54 4C 41 4E 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010100 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#85 &#82 &#83 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#83 &#67 &#79 &#84 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0055 0052 0053 0045 004F 0046 0053 0043 004F 0054 004C 0041 004E 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Specialty Definition: CURSE OF SCOTLAND

Literature

Slang in 1811