scotia

Sco·tia

(skō′shə)

A medieval and poetic name for Scotland.

sco·tia

(skō′shə)

A hollow concave molding at or near the base of a column.

[Latin, from Greek skotiā, from feminine of skotios, dark, shadowy (from the shadow it casts), from skotos, darkness.]

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scotia

(ˈskəʊʃə)

(Architecture) a deep concave moulding, esp one used on the base of an Ionic column between the two torus mouldings

[C16: via Latin from Greek skotia, from skotos darkness (from the shadow in the cavity)]

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sco•tia

(ˈskoʊ ʃə)

n., pl. -tias.

a deep concave molding between two fillets, esp. in the base of a column in classical architecture.

[1555–65; < Latin < Greek skotía darkness (from its shadow)]

Sco•tia

(ˈskoʊ ʃə)

n.

Literary. Scotland.

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The 13th of April, 1867, the sea being beautiful, the breeze favourable, the Scotia, of the Cunard Company's line, found herself in 15@ 12' long.

At seventeen minutes past four in the afternoon, whilst the passengers were assembled at lunch in the great saloon, a slight shock was felt on the hull of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle.

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We're getting a little boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia and he's coming on the train tonight."

"Yes, of course," said Marilla, as if getting boys from orphan asylums in Nova Scotia were part of the usual spring work on any well-regulated Avonlea farm instead of being an unheard of innovation.

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He went over to Nova Scotia to visit his relations--his father had come from Nova Scotia--and he wrote back to Leslie that his cousin, George Moore, was going on a voyage to Havana and he was going too.

The Nova Scotia Moores investigated, and found she had got to Havana and discharged her cargo and took on another and left for home; and that was all they ever found out about her.

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To the eyes of his matter-of-fact companions, the aspect of these coasts recalled rather the parceled-out land of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and where the Frenchman discovered traces of the heroes of fable, these Americans were marking the most favorable points for the establishment of stores in the interests of lunar commerce and industry.

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And they could all see the point except an owl that come from Nova Scotia to visit the Yo Semite, and he took this thing in on his way back.

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Alex King's well-known style and the happy couple left for their new home in Nova Scotia. Their many friends join in wishing them a very happy and prosperous journey through life.

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"Same schooner, Charlie Ritchie, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 33, single.

- Schooner "Gilbert Hope"; went astray in dory, Robert Beavon, 29, married, native of Pubnico, Nova Scotia."

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He had left me, after several years of fruit less application and comparative poverty, in Nova Scotia, to obtain the compensation for his losses which the British commissioners had at length awarded.