scott : Idioms & Phrases

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cecil scott forester

  • noun English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
    C. S. Forester; Forester.
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dred scott

  • noun United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)
    Scott.
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f. scott fitzgerald

  • noun United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940)
    Fitzgerald; F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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francis scott key

  • noun United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
    Key.
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francis scott key fitzgerald

  • noun United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940)
    Fitzgerald; F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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george c. scott

  • noun award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)
    Scott.
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james scott connors

  • noun outstanding United States tennis player (born in 1952)
    Jimmy Conors; Connors.
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john scott haldane

  • noun Scottish physiologist and brother of Richard Haldane and Elizabeth Haldane; noted for research into industrial diseases (1860-1936)
    Haldane; John Haldane.
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robert falcon scott

  • noun English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
    Robert Falcon Scott; Scott.
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robert scott

  • noun English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)
    Robert Falcon Scott; Scott.
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scott joplin

  • noun United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)
    Joplin.
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scott's spleenwort

  • noun common North American fern with polished black stripes
    Asplenium platyneuron; ebony spleenwort.
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sir charles scott sherrington

  • noun English physiologist who conducted research on reflex action (1857-1952)
    Sherrington.
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sir walter scott

  • noun British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
    Sir Walter Scott; Scott.
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walter scott

  • noun British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)
    Sir Walter Scott; Scott.
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winfield scott

  • noun United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866)
    Scott.
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