Crossword-Solution: TARTANED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

From the Highlands and the Lowlands they came, from island and mainland flocked the kilted and tartaned Scotch, but, when all were gathered, they numbered not a third the host of their foes, and were much more poorly armed.

From Scotland's mountain-glens, From sky-blue lochs, and the wild highland heaths, From Lothian villages, along the banks 150 Of Forth, King Malcolm leads his clansmen bold, And, dauntless as romantic, bids unfurl The banner of St Andrew; by his side Mild Edgar Atheling, a stripling boy, His brother, heir to England's throne, appears; The dawn of youth on his fresh cheek; and, lo! The broadswords glitter as the tartaned troops March to the pibroch's sound.

Poor Panther, doubtless he now rests with his fathers, rests under the shadow of some of the mighty mountains, the tartaned hills, over which he and I used to wander in pursuit of game.

Smooth, though scaly, and inky black, tartaned all over with transverse rows of bright yellow spots, with eyes that shone like wildfire, and teeth like quartz, with his forked tongue continually flashing out from his bright-red mouth, he had a wild, weird loveliness that was most uncanny.

There he was, marching as lieutenant or something of that sort, of the tartaned company, all barelegged from below the kilt a little above the knee to thick stocking just below the knee, all alike displaying this ancient Scottish endurance of field and flood and of anything else.