...hours earlier than he wished to rise, all the world forgets that the Doctor's celebrated definition of oats — ' a grain ' which in England is generally...given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people' — is but an echo from The Anatomy. Now Burton tells us that ' Joh. Major, ' in the first book of...

...great Doctor's peculiarities was a marked dislike of Scotland and the Scotch. So he defines oats as " a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Once when Boswell showed him a fine view in Scotland, and said, " Surely you must admit that this is...

...one does look up a word, one finds only other words. Take, for instance, Dr. Johnson's definition of "oats": "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." This definition tells us as much about Dr. Johnson and his times as it does the word in question. Wherein...

...a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. 5189 0 e Ě Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he...

...Samuel Johnson's prejudice against the Scots is well known. His landmark Dictionary defines "oats" thus: "A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Nevertheless, when Dr. Johnson began the monumental task of compiling this great work, five of the...

...what Langacker (1984) describes as an 'active zone.' 17. The famous Dr Johnson observed that oats is "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports die people" (Johnson, 1785, sv oats). 18. One of the rare metonymies in this domain is BritE tea 'drink,'...

...Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Patron. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. caterwaul KA ter...

...ancient Greeks (DeCandolle 1886). The crop was famously defined by Samuel Johnson in his dictionary as 'a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people'. However as well as animal food (67% of the world crop), oats are widely used as human nutrition (10%)...

...cereal grass which can grow in more marginal environments than other cereals. Johnson's Dictionary: 'A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' (1755) breaded CZECH a snack, usually served with drink CZECH lunch CZECH sauce containing horseradish...

...often been observed (for example, the English satirist Samuel Johnson (1979) had once defined oats as 'a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people') and is here used to offer a striking re-characterization of such celebrated Scottish symbols as haggis,...