Crossword-Solution: WEEM 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

This was Steenie’s first, and all but his last descent into the _earth-house_, or _Picts’ House_, or _weem_, as a place of the sort is called: there are many such in the east of Scotland, their age and origin objects of merest conjecture.

CHAPTER XIV STEENIE’S HOUSE Steenie seemed always to experience a strange sort of terror while waiting for anyone to come out of the weem, into which he never entered; and it was his repugnance to the place that chiefly moved him to build a house of his own.

The site of the bo'h is called Meall na [h-] Uamh, or Cave Lump [more correctly, the Mound of the Cave, or 'Weem.'] It consists of a partly excavated oval dwelling chamber (_a_), 7 feet by 14 feet on the floor; the dome roof has fallen in; there are two _cuiltean_, or niches in the wall.

JAMIESON, Monzie Monzie--a southern outpost on the edge of the Highlands--is said to derived from the Gaelic _Moeghe_, signifying "a good plain." It is a long, narrow, irregular parish, extending for nearly twelve miles up both sides of the River Almond, until it touches, on the north, the parishes of Dull, Weem, and Kenmore.

Cuthbert in Scotland were those at Ballantrae, Hailes, Ednam, Glencairn, Kirkcudbright, Drummelzier, Gienholm (Broughton), Malton, Edinburgh, Prestwick, Eccles, Drysdale, Girvan, Maybole, Mauchline, Weem, and even distant Wick.