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Clootie

Scottish appellation for the devil. [Scot. Folklore: Leach, 353]
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The legend remains powerful: This highway had to be remapped so as not to disturb the wells and cloots.
Ancient knowing: folklore of the Scottish highlands
Or as my own used to say - "never cast a cloot until May is oot".
Joan Burnie THE WEEK IN HER OWN WORDS; This sporting strife
Sensible people will still refuse to cast a cloot till May is oot - and prepare for winter in the Glasgow Fair Fortnight, as usual.
RECORD VIEW; Nat in the real world
Can anyone help with the proper meaning of "Ne'er cast a cloot till May is oot"?
VOICE OF SCOTLAND; DRUGS BAN BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW
Once again that time of year is upon us, when we hear the oft quoted expression: "Never cast a cloot till May be oot.
The Voice of Scotland; CRUEL WORLD
Cloots, "Kronig-penneyising picture of colossal magnetoresistance," Phys.
Implementacion de una interfaz grafica para el estudio de propiedades de magnetotransporte en bicapas de manganitas tipo perovskita
In this regard she mentions Anacharsis Cloots (Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grace, baron de Cloots, 1755-1794) who advocated a single world state and, of course, Immanuel Kant, who looked to an international legal order, 'a league of nations' in "Perpetual Peace" (1795).
Problematizing liberal cosmopolitanisms: foucault and neoliberal cosmopolitan governmentality
For Dvorak, the longest such words going forwards have six letters, and there are 33 of them: CLOOTS, CLOUDS, CLOUTS, COOEED, COOEES, CREEDS, CROONS, CROUTS, FLEETS, FLOODS, FLOUTS, FLUIDS, FOEHNS, FRAUDS, FREETS, FREITS, FRITTS, FRUITS, GLEEDS, GLEETS, GLOUTS, GRAINS, GREEDS, GREENS, GREETS, GROINS, GROUTS, PLAIDS, PLAINS, PLAITS, PREENS, PYLONS, and PYRANS.
Dvorak typewriter words
He had talked to Sylvain Cloutier in Hull about me and then I spoke to Cloots.
Weller ready to clash with old pal Bannister
NICOLAS NUTAL (1), CEDRIC J GOMMES (2), SILVIA BLACHER (2), PHILIPPE POUTEAU (3), JEAN-PAUL PIRARD (2), FREDERIC BOSCHINI (1), KARL TRAINA (1) AND RUDI CLOOTS (1)
Image analysis of pearlite spheroidization based on the morphological characterization of cementite particles
Cloots reclamaba para si el titulo de "ciudadano del mundo" (OC 3: 23) a la vez que sostenia que el genero humano era su interlocutor.
Pierre Menard, traductor de Valery: entre muertes del autor
A graphic example is the case of Egidio Cloots, a traveller born into an Amsterdam Catholic family who, in the 1720's, decides to settle in Cadiz as a safe port for his family business.
Merchants and observers. The Dutch Republic's commercial interests in Spain and the merchant community in Cadiz in the eighteenth century

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