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Pictish

Pictish \Pict"ish\, a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. ``The Pictish peer.''
--Byron.

Usage examples of "pictish".

It was not impossible that Kubwande might have the wits to follow the victorious Amra, at least until Amra had led the way out of the Pictish Wilderness.

No war came on Connacht, and the constant necessity of beating off the incursions of Pictish raiding parties brought Art mac Comail no great fame or honour.

Behind them along the broad path they followed this time, those triumphant men of Connacht dragged seven and twenty Pictish corpses.

King of Man, the Lord of the Western Isles, the Mormaers of Caithness and Argyll, abbots and bishops and silver-haired Norse jarls and dark Pictish chieftains.

Friends were mostly naked, and another score of Picts died howling or moaning with Pictish arrows through their gizzards.

Some of those foes were hillmen like the Picts, although the Pictish Wilderness was more heavily wooded than the Ilbars Mountains or the wastes of northern Iranistan.

The Picts of the Pictish period, in eastern Scotland, lived in souterrains, in small villages.

He came upon a Pictish shaman who stood rigid, eyes closed, lips amove, both hands extended.

The thin neck was encircled by a heavy tore of meteoric iron, its blackness lifted by murky cairngorms and Pictish symbols traced in silver.

I say this not as her stepbrother but as the Dux Bellorum who had to bring word of her husband's murder at the hands of Pictish bandits!

He enrolls as a scout at Fort Tuscelan, the last Aquilonian outpost on the east bank of the Black River, deep in Pictish territory.

Three hundred men sat about gambling, whetting their weapons and drinking deep of the heather ale furnished them by their Pictish allies.

Theyll hear Pictish women wailing their dead as far as Velitrium - I was on a lone scout.