noun
definition
A round hill or short ridge of sand or gravel deposited by a melting glacier.
Examples of kames in a Sentence
These, with an account of Aristotle's Logic appended to Lord Kames's Sketches of the History of Man (1774), conclude the list of works published in Reid's lifetime.
Hamilton's edition of Reid also contains an account of the university of Glasgow and a selection of Reid's letters, chiefly addressed to his Aberdeen friends the Skenes, to Lord Kames, and to Dr James Gregory.
He knew Kames, Hume and Adam Smith, and corresponded with Mirabeau, " the friend of Man."
In 1748 he removed to Edinburgh, and there, under the patronage of Lord Kames, gave lectures on rhetoric and belles-lettres.
In 1752 he was appointed a judge in the court of session under the title of Lord Kames, and in 1763 he was made one of the lords of justiciary.
It is, however, as a writer on philosophy that Lord Kames is best known.
On 11th December she was laid up at Kames Bay, Isle of Bute pending disposal.
Ardlamont (it means the promontory of the Lamonts) is south of Kames, near Tighnabruaich.