Balwhidder (The Rev. Micah).
A Scotch Presbyterian minister, full of fossilised national prejudices, but both kind-hearted and sincere. (Galt: Annals of the Parish, a novel (1821).)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.