Crossword-Solution: NAPIER 6 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Him wot used to drive the Napier I was tellin' you about.” “And what did the old man say when he found he'd been running a racing car?” “He don't know now.

Scott makes David Ramsay, in the _Fortunes of Nigel_ (chapter ii.), swear ``by the bones of the immortal Napier.'' It would perhaps be rank heresy to suppose that Sir Walter did not know that ``Napier's bones'' were an apparatus for purposes of calculation, but he certainly puts the expression in such an ambiguous form that many of his readers are likely to suppose that the actual bones of Napier's body were intended.

Step by step improvements were made; the most important being that invented by Napier of Merchiston, the inventor of logarithms, commonly called Napier's bones, consisting of a number of rods divided into ten equal squares and numbered, so that the whole when placed together formed the common multiplication table.

She was, long subsequently, the admiral’s ship of the Miguelite squadron, and had been captured by the gallant Napier about three years previous to the time of which I am speaking.

Alexander Napier—at this time, and until his death fifty years later, one of my closest and most cherished friends.