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Webster 1913 Edition
Highland
High′land
,Noun.
Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the
pl.
) an elevated region or country; as, the
. Highlands
of ScotlandHighland fling
, a dance peculiar to the Scottish Highlanders; a sort of hornpipe.
Webster 1828 Edition
Highland
HIGHLAND
,Noun.
Highlands of Scotland, mountainous regions inhabited by the descendants of the ancient Celts, who retain their primitive language.
Highlands on the Hudson, sixty miles from New York. These afford most sublime and romantic scenery, and here is West Point, a fortified post during the revolution, and now the seat of one of the best military schools of the age.