It is probably best known from the royal coats of arms of Scotland and the United Kingdom: two unicorns support the Scottish arms ; a lion and a unicorn support the UK arms, representing the 1707 Union of England ( whose traditional heraldic symbol is the lion ) and Scotland.

A compartment is usually some kind of landscape ( in the case of Scottish chiefs it is generally a " mount vert "-grassy mount covered with the clan's flower ) or seascape, and these can be quite elaborate, particularly in more recent Canadian grants, such as the compartment of the University of Northern British Columbia, in which the female kermodei bear and woodland caribou buck stand on a forest, mountain peaks and ears of wheat, all rising out of the conventionalised heraldic representation of water, which is itself charged with an orca as designed by Ron Sebastian.

Clan badges are commonly referred to as the original clan symbol ; however, Thomas Innes of Learney claimed the heraldic flags of clan chiefs would have been the earliest means of identifying Scottish clans in battle or at large gatherings.

* It is given as the translation of the heraldic motto of several Scottish clans:

The Union of the Crowns was symbolised in James's personal heraldic badge after 1603, the Tudor rose Dimidiation | dimidiated with the Scottish thistle ensigned by the royal crown.

The Lord Lyon King of Arms, head of the Scottish heraldic establishment and whose office predates his association with the Order serves as King of Arms of the Order.

The Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry in that country, issuing new grants of arms, and serving as the judge of the Court of the Lord Lyon, the oldest heraldic court in the world that is still in daily operation.

The club adopted the current badge in 1993 after The Lord Lyon decreed that the previous badge, based heavily upon the town crest, was in breach of ancient Scottish heraldic rules.

Other names include Scots thistle or Scottish thistle, heraldic thistle and woolly thistle ; the name Scots thistle comes from its status as the national emblem of Scotland.

This means that in Scotland no two men can ever simultaneously bear the same arms, even by accident, if they have submitted their position to the Scottish heraldic authorities ( which not all do in practice, in Scotland as in England ); if they have not done so, the matter falls under statute law and may result in proceedings in the Lyon Court, which is part of the Scots criminal justice system.

Traditionally the scabbard is made of leather reinforced with wood and fitted with mounts of silver or some other metal which may be cast or engraved with designs ranging from Scottish thistles, Celtic knotwork, or heraldic elements such as a crest.

Scottish crest badges usually contain the heraldic crest and heraldic motto of the chief of the clan.

It should be noted, however, that Lord Lyon only governs in matters heraldic and has no jurisdiction of the civil use of the chapeau and there is nothing to say that a Scottish Baron could not wear a chapeau on formal occasions relating to the barony.

* Lord Lyon King of Arms, head of Lyon Court, a Scottish heraldic official

San Beda College adopted the Red Lion emblem from the ancient Scottish / English heraldic symbol, the Red Lion Rampant.

: For the Scottish heraldic authority, see Lord Lyon King of Arms.

The shield of a married woman ( and the lozenge of a widow ) may combine her own arms with the arms of her husband, either by impalement side by side or ( in the case of an heraldic heiress in English heraldry, but not Scottish ) in the form of a small " escutcheon of pretence " displaying the wife's arms over a larger shield ( or, in the case of a widow, lozenge ) of her husband's arms.

Prior to the creation of the Canadian Heraldic Authority, Canadians wishing to obtain a legally granted coat of arms had to apply to one of the two heraldic offices in the United Kingdom: either the College of Arms in London, or if of Scottish descent, to the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh.

The motto munit haec et altera vincit appears above the crest in keeping with the Scottish heraldic style.

Ó hÓgáin proposes that this term was also used in Scottish Gaelic and Welsh.

The coining of the word cryptozoology is often attributed to Belgian-French zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans, though Heuvelmans attributes coinage of the term to the late Scottish explorer and adventurer Ivan T. Sanderson.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

In Scottish Gaelic and Irish, the term dative case is misleadingly used in traditional grammars to refer to the prepositional case-marking of nouns following simple prepositions and the definite article.

The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier ( 1808 – 1864 ).

In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception.

The term " Hun " is also used by Catholics in Northern Ireland as a derogatory term to refer to Northern Irish Protestants, most of whom are descended from English and Lowland Scottish settlers, who historically spoke English and Scots respectively ; both Germanic languages.

The term was adopted in the late 18th century by Scottish engineer James Watt to compare the output of steam engines with the power of draft horses.

The words hypnosis and hypnotism both derive from the term neuro-hypnotism ( nervous sleep ) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841.

* Housing scheme, a Scottish term for a council housing development

As employed by Scots or Scottish English-speakers today it is usually used in jest, as a ( friendly ) term of abuse.

The image of Spam as a low cost meat product gave rise to the Scottish colloquial term " Spam valley " to describe certain affluent housing areas where residents appear to be wealthy but in reality may be living at poverty levels.

According to Gibbs, the term " statistical ", in the context of mechanics, i. e. statistical mechanics, was first used by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1871.

The aos sí (, "", older form aes sídhe ), "") is the Irish Gaelic term for a supernatural race in Irish mythology and Scottish mythology comparable to the fairies or elves.

In August 2009 as part of its third legislative term in the Scottish Parliament, the Government proposes to debate the Scottish referendum bill 2010, which would set out a planned referendum for 30th November 2010 on the issue of Scottish independence.

Scottish and Canadian whiskies use " whisky ", Irish whiskies use " whiskey ", while American and other styles vary in their spelling of the term.

This term corresponding to the jurisdiction of the Sheriff in the Scottish legal system.

In the reign of Charles I the term was used during Wars of the Three Kingdoms to refer derisively to a radical faction of the Scottish Covenanters who called themselves the " Kirk Party " ( see the Whiggamore Raid ).

Northeast England and the Scottish Borders commonly use the word ket ( plural kets ) and more recently chud, derivative of chuddy, a localised term for chewing gum.

The phrase " unitary authority " is not used in Scottish legislation ( whether from the Scottish Parliament or the UK Parliament ), although the term is encountered ( used either descriptively or erroneously ) in publications and in ( usually erroneous ) use by United Kingdom government departments.

Use of the term Doric in this context may also arise out of a contrast with the anglicised speech of the Scottish capital, because at one point, Edinburgh was nicknamed ' Athens of the North '.

About 1500 delegates are expected to register today for the biennial session of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.

* Atlas is a nickname for Michael Marra, a Scottish musician ( born 1952 )

Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

After trouble with an incompetent Swiss French nursery helper Marcelle for toddler Rosalind, she decides " Scottish preferred .. good with the young.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

Scottish Borders Council is considering an application by a property developer to build a housing estate on the opposite bank of the River Tweed from Abbotsford, to which Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland object.

In Scottish Law, consent is not a defense for assault.

Scottish law also provides for a more serious charge of aggravated assault on the basis of such factors as severity of injury, the use of a weapon, or Hamesuken ( to assault a person in his own home ).

The Scottish forces reached the south coast of England at the port of Dover where in September 1216, Alexander paid homage to the pretender Prince Louis of France for his lands in England, chosen by the barons to replace King John.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a motion in 1999 calling for the complete removal of any discrimination linked to the monarchy and the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):

Areas similar to that of the council area are covered by the Angus Westminster constituency for the UK Parliament and the area is also represented at the Scottish Parliament by both the Angus and North Tayside Holyrood constituencies.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

James Thomson Callender, a Scottish citizen, had been expelled from Great Britain for his political writings.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

Even so, forces with inferior weapons have still emerged victorious at times, for example in the Wars of Scottish Independence and in the First Italo – Ethiopian War.

Most contracts are awarded by the Department for Transport ( DfT ), with the exception of Merseyrail, where the franchise is awarded by Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive, and ScotRail, where the DfT awards on the advice of the Scottish Government.

Some beers today, such as Fraoch by the Scottish Heather Ales company and Cervoise Lancelot by the French Brasserie-Lancelot company, use plants other than hops for flavouring.