The Gaelic has supplied to Lowland Scotland the term _ker_, or carry-handed, in common use, derived from _lamh-chearr_, the left hand. In the secondary meanings attached to _ker_, or carry, it signifies awkward, devious; and in a moral sense is equivalent to the English use of the word “sinister.” To “_gang the kar gate_” is to go the left road, _i.e._ the wrong road, or the road to ruin. There is no separate word in the Gaelic for “right hand,” but it is called _lamh dheas_ and _lamh ceart_. Both words imply “proper, becoming, or right.” _Ceart_ is the common term to express what is right, correct, or fitting, whereas _dheas_ primarily signifies the “south,” and is explained by the supposed practice of the Druid augur following the sun in his divinations. In this it will be seen to agree with the secondary meaning of the Hebrew _yamin_, and to present a common analogy with the corresponding Greek and Latin terms hereafter referred to. _Deisal_, a compound of _dheas_, south, and _iùl_, a guide, a course, is commonly used as an adjective, to express a lucky or favourable occurrence. The “left hand” is variously styled _lamh chli_, the wily or cunning hand, and _lamh cearr_, or _ciotach_. _Cearr_ is wrong, unlucky, and _ciotach_ is the equivalent of _sinister_, formed from the specific name for the left hand, _ciotag_, Welsh _chwithig_. According to Pliny,[5] “the Gauls, in their religious rites, contrary to the practice of the Romans, turned to the left.” An ancient Scottish tradition traces the surname of Kerr to the fact that the Dalriadic king, Kynach-Ker or Connchad Cearr, as he is called in the _Duan Albanach_, was left-handed; though the name is strongly suggestive of a term of reproach like that of the Saxon Ethelred, the Unready. [5] _Hist. Nat._ lib. xxviii. c. 2.