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  • noun Alternative form of incantation.

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  • Indeed, we might well consider it over-comprehensive: was it, for instance, really necessary to include raibheic ` the roar that a cow gives when gored by another; caiseach ` well supplied with cheese; or frith, a word apparently used only in MacAlpine's native Islay, meaning ` an encantation [sic] to find whether people at a great distance or at sea be in life '?

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3 1984

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