a village of Scotland, county of Lanark, forming a suburb of Glasgow, from which it is about 2 miles W.N.W. It stands near the confluence of the Kelvin with the Clyde, and has many fine villas in the neighbourhood. There are an Established, a Free, and two United Presbyterian churches, several schools, and a literary society. In the village and its vicinity there are large flourmills, a cotton factory, bleachfields, and ship-building yards. Pop. 2747.