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angus

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, Scottish, related to Irish Aonghus , a compound that may be rendered in English as "one choice." Also the name of a county in Scotland, hence a breed of cattle (1842) associated with that region.

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Angus is a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (at Westminster ). It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first-past-the-post voting system. It was created for the 1997 general election , largely replacing ...

Usage examples of angus.

An Aberdonian, he resembled one of the black Aberdeen Angus cattle from his native territory: black curls tumbling over a broad forehead, liquid dark eyes always on the lookout for the red rag, wide cheekbones seeming to drag his fleshy nose across his face, full lips always moist.

Then, just before the hour of tierce, the great lairdsMoray, Lovat, Ayr, Midlothian, Aberdeen, Ross, Angus, Banff, Argyll and Berwickappeared in company with the Lord Marshal, James Stewart, to announce that King Alexander had died of his wounds in the night, as, too, had Cardinal de Mandojana.

Angus Gordon specialized in planning and bioengineering, but more importantly he was a lateral thinker, a leader and problem solver, not a manipulative bully.

Angus had read in a medical journal of the deaths of a large number of fit, middle-aged men on squash courts who were unable to tolerate the wild bursts of cardiorespiratory action required by the frequent spurts of activity during squash.

There are Herefords and Angus and mixes including a cross called Black Ballys or Baldys that look like black minstrel-cows in white face A few Charolais and Brahmas and Durhams are stippled into the landscape, but the lineage of most Paradise Valley steers is too murky to chart.

The head of the house, Angus Ray, came to the district early in life from the extreme Cumbrian border.

The little Highlander, as seemingly unlikely a hefter of Portland stone and marble as Angus Buchanan, was rubbing at the crown of his bald head and squinting at the designs spread before him.

The wee and gnarled man with bulging hyperthyroid eyes had dropped his animosity and now gave Angus lessons.

In Kintyre more support was found, Neil Campbell and Angus Og MacDonald of Islay both came to his aid.

Now the only picture of John Macnab known to the gillies was that which had been broadcast in talk by Angus and Jimsie of Strathlarrig, and that agreed most startlingly with the navvies account.

Summoning the Protestant gentlemen of Angus and the Mearns to meet them in St.

Angus thanked him, piled the sacks into the boot of Mr Micawber and drove home with windows open, mouth shut and nostrils puckered.

So Angus returned Sheila to the paddock and drove the technicolor Mr Micawber to the big house.

So, on a Thursday evening Angus packed Mr Micawber, threw his sleeping bag in the back, and headed South.

At last, in gathering dusk, and with Jackson at the wheel, the whole gang bounced down Glen Fionart in the van to where Angus had left Micawber in a lay-by off the main road.