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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ayrshire \Ayr"shire\, n. (Agric.) One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. One of a breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland, notable for the quantity and quality of their milk. n. A traditional county in Scotland.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 98
Land area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.208116 sq. miles (0.539018 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04105
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.038506 N, 94.834712 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50515
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Ayrshire (, ) is a historic county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. It is also, under the name the County of Ayr, a registration county. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. Like the other counties of Scotland, it currently has no administrative function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800.
The electoral and valuation area named Ayrshire covers the three council areas of South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire, therefore including the Isle of Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. The three islands were part of the County of Bute until 1975 and are not always included when the term Ayrshire is applied to the region. The same area is known as Ayrshire and Arran in other contexts.
Ayrshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1800 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1868, when it was divided into North Ayrshire and South Ayrshire.
It elected one Member of Parliament (MP), using the first-past-the-post voting system.
Ayrshire (1885–1910) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from 1887 to 1889 he ran sixteen times and won eleven races. After winning five races as a two-year-old he became the leading British three-year-old colt of 1888 when he won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the Derby at Epsom. He failed in his bid to win the English Triple Crown when beaten in the St Leger at Doncaster but returned in 1889 for a successful campaign which included a win in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. He was retired to stud at the end of the year and had a modestly successful career as a stallion. He died in 1910.
Ayrshire is a registration county, and former administrative county in south-west Scotland, United Kingdom.
Ayrshire may also refer to:
- Ayrshire (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
- Ayrshire (UK Parliament constituency), a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliaments of Great Britain and the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1868
- Ayrshire cattle, a breed of dairy cattle originating from Ayrshire in Scotland
Before the Acts of Union 1707, the barons of the sheriffdom or shire of Ayr elected commissioners to represent them in the Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of the Estates. After the Union, Ayrshire returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Usage examples of "ayrshire".
Kyle, and began to negotiate for a new edition of the Poems of the Ayrshire Ploughman.
Adamhill in Ayrshire, and merited the praise of rough and ready-witted, which the poem bestows.
Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea.
October, 1786, when he dined at my house in Ayrshire, together with our common friend, John Mackenzie, surgeon in Mauchline, to whom I am indebted for the pleasure of his acquaintance.
He was, he says, on his way to Ayrshire, one stormy day in January, and had made himself comfortable, in spite of the snow-drift, over a smoking bowl, at an inn at the Sanquhar, when in wheeled the whole funeral pageantry of Mrs.
John Whitefoord, a name of old standing in Ayrshire, inherited the love of his family for literature, and interested himself early in the fame and fortunes of Burns.
William Cobbett, who knew him, to have been a Thomas Kennedy, a native of Ayrshire, agent to a mercantile house in the west of Scotland.
I composed the other day, on a charming Ayrshire girl, Miss Leslie Baillie, as she passed through this place to England, will suit your taste better than the Collier Lassie, fall on and welcome.
Even in higher life, a couple of our Ayrshire noblemen, and the major part of our knights and squires, are all insolvent.
The Esculapian Club of Edinburgh have, since the death of Burns, added some iron-work, with an inscription in honour of the Ayrshire poet to the original headstone.
I shall, for certain, leave town in a week for Ayrshire, and from that to Dumfries, but there my hopes are slender.
I return to Ayrshire middle of next week: and it quickens my pace to think that there will be a letter from you waiting me there.
I return to Ayrshire, for there I keep it with other precious treasure.
I sent to Edinburgh, a few days after I had the happiness of meeting you in Ayrshire, but you were gone for the Continent.
Oswald, and poor I am forced to brave all the horrors of the tempestuous night, and jade my horse, my young favourite horse, whom I had just christened Pegasus, twelve miles farther on, through the wildest moors and hills of Ayrshire, to New Cumnock, the next inn.