Acclivity
101uplift — Synonyms and related words: Great Leap Forward, abruptness, acclivity, acculturate, advance, advancement, aggrandize, ameliorate, amelioration, amend, amendment, anabasis, apotheose, apotheosis, apotheosize, ascension, ascent, assumption, bear up …
102uprise — Synonyms and related words: Olympian heights, abruptness, acclivity, acme, aerial heights, anabasis, apex, arise, ascend, ascension, ascent, bank, bristle, buss the clouds, cant, careen, clamber, climb, climbing, cock up, come up, curl upwards,… …
103uprising — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, acclinate, acclivitous, acclivity, anabasis, anabatic, ascendant, ascending, ascension, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, civil disorder, clamber, climb, climbing, coup d etat, elevation, emeute, escalade,… …
104Aberdeen, Old — ABERDEEN, OLD, or Old Machar,a parish, chiefly without, but partly within, the city of Aberdeen, county of Aberdeen; comprising the quoad sacra districts of Bon Accord, Gilcomston, Holburn, and Woodside; and containing 28,020 inhabitants, of… …
105Alloa — ALLOA, a burgh of barony, sea port town, and parish, in the county of Clackmannan, 7 miles (E.) from Stirling; containing, with the villages of Cambus, Coalyland, Holton Square, and Tullibody, 7921 inhabitants, of whom 5434 are in the burgh,… …
106Alvah — ALVAH, a parish, in the county of Banff, 3 miles (W. S. W.) from Banff; containing 1407 inhabitants. The origin of the name of this place, which, in different records, is variously spelled, is altogether involved in obscurity; but authentic… …
107Andrew's, St. — 1) ANDREW S, ST., a city, the seat of a university, and anciently the metropolitan see of Scotland, in the district of St. Andrew s, county of Fife, 39 miles (N. N. E.) from Edinburgh; containing, with the villages of Boarhills, Grange,… …
108Arbirlot — ARBIRLOT, a parish, in the county of Forfar, 2½ miles (W.) from Arbroath; containing, with the village of Bonnington, 1045 inhabitants, of whom 77 are in the village of Arbirlot. This place appears to have derived its name, a contraction of… …
109Ardchattan — ARDCHATTAN, a parish, in the district of Lorn, county of Argyll, 8 miles (E. N. E.) from Oban; containing 2421 inhabitants, of whom 960 are in the quoad sacra parish of Muckairn. This place is supposed to have derived its name from Catan, who… …
110Auldearn — AULDEARN, a parish, in the county of Nairn, 2¾ miles (E. S. E.) from Nairn; containing 1466 inhabitants, of whom 351 are in the village. This place is said by some to have derived its name, in the Gaelic Alt Ern, from a brook flowing through… …
