What is "kittle"

Usage examples of "kittle".

The parties engaged in the project being Mr Absolom the writer--a man no overly reverential in his opinion of the law and lords when his clients lost their pleas, which, poor folk, was very often--and some three or four young and inexperienced lads, that were wont to read essays, and debate the kittle points of divinity and other hidden knowledge, in the Cross-Keys monthly, denying the existence of the soul of man, as Dr Sinney told me, till they were deprived of all rationality by foreign or British spirits.

I paid always the greatest deference, I invited Mr Keekie of Loupinton, who was a sound preacher, and a great expounder of the kittle parts of the Old Testament, being a man well versed in the Hebrew and etymologies, for which he was much reverenced by the old people that delighted to search the Scriptures.

Mr Siftwell is a shrewd and clear-seeing man in points of theology, and I would trust a great deal to what he says, as I have not, at my advanced age, such a mind for the kittle crudities of polemical investigation that I had in my younger years, especially when I was a student in the Divinity Hall of Glasgow.

Men are kittle cattle--and often very slow to arrive at the intrinsic value and significance of things.

They strolled along the streets, Kham keeping his pace to something Kittle George could manage.

But the ministry in these days is a kittle job, for the preachers are ower crouse, and the Kirk has got its heid ower high.

Thay aint over stockt with branes, but thay hav brass enuff to make suffishunt kittles to bile all the sope that will be required by the ensooin sixteen ginerashuns.

Majesty, though it may be the kittlest, and he did me the honour to pick me along with Bob Muschat, for he wanted somebody who had some pretension to gentility.

Few mortals be such mollymawks as tae try and cross that sea-causewayit was ever a kittle road.

Thay aint over stockt with branes, but thay hav brass enuff to make suffishunt kittles to bile all the sope that will be required by the ensooin sixteen ginerashuns.

G ood Luck, she is never a lady, But the cursedest quean alive, Tricksy, wincing, and jady -Kittle to lead or drive.

Argall having secretly well rewarded him, with a small Copper kittle, and some other les valuable toies so highly by him esteemed, that doubtlesse he would have betraied his own father for them, permitted both him and his wife to returne, but told him that for divers considerations, as for that his father had then eigh [8] of our Englishe men, many swords, peeces, and other tooles, which he hid at severall times by trecherous murdering our men, taken from them which though of no use to him, he would not redeliver, he would reserve Pocahuntas, whereat she began to be exceeding pensive, and discontented, yet ignorant of the dealing of Japazeus who in outward appearance was no les discontented that he should be the meanes of her captivity, much adoe there was to pursuade her to be patient, which with extraordinary curteous usage, by little and little was wrought in her, and so to Jamestowne she was brought.

There's nae sich thing as safety for mortals in that kittle foggie roughness yonder.

Old fellows like Matterson and Kittling, that music coming from the loudspeaker is all they have.

Few mortals be such mollymawks as tae try and cross that sea-causeway—it was ever a kittle road.