CRAG (a Celtic word, cf. Gael. creag, Manx creg, and Welsh and modern Scots craig)

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CRAG (a Celtic word, cf. Gael. creag, Manx creg, and Welsh and modern Scots craig) , a steep

rock

ROCK
ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
ROCK,
DANIEL
(1799–187t)

. The word appears in many place-names in the north of England and in

Scotland

SCOTLAND
SCOTLAND,
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH,
  RICHARD
  WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR
  RICHARD
  (1784–1873)
OF
SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL
CHURCH
- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  under various forms—Scottish
  kirk
  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
OF

, and is also connected with " carrick," a word of similar meaning, also found in place-names. In

geology

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

, the

term

TERM

is applied to the strata in which a shelly sand deposit is found, and, in the expression " crag and tail," to a formation of hills,, in which one side is precipitous and lofty and the other slopes or " tails" gradually away, as in the

Castle

Rock

ROCK
ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
DANIEL
_1799187t_.html">ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

in Edinburgh.

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