Difference between revisions of "Fife"

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To play on a fife. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music. </p>

<p> A maritime county in the E. of Scotland, which juts out into the German Ocean and is washed by the Firths of [[Tay]] and [[Forth]] on its N. and S. shores respectively, thus forming a small peninsula; has for the most part a broken and hilly surface, extensively cultivated however, while the "How of Fife," watered by the Eden, is a fertile valley, richly wooded; and valuable coal deposits are worked in the S. and W.; its long coast-line is studded with picturesque towns, many of them of ancient date, a circumstance which led James VI. to describe the county as "a beggar's mantle fringed with gold"; it is associated with much that is memorable in Scottish history. </p>