a burgh of barony and seaport of Scotland, in the county of Caithness, on a bay of the same name on the southern shore of the Pentland Firth, 21 miles N.W. of Wick. It is irregularly laid out; but contains, especially in the suburbs, many neat and substantially built houses. The parish church is an elegant building; and the town has also a Free church, and places of worship for the Original Seceders, Baptists, and Independents, several schools, two public libraries, and a news-room. Linen and woollen cloth, leather, ropes, and fishing-nets are made here; fisheries of haddock, cod, and lobsters are carried on in the bay; and there is some trade in grain, cattle, sheep, and paving-stones. The bay is unfavourably situated, and too much exposed to the sea for being a resort of much shipping; and the town is consequently not likely to increase much in size or importance. A little to the east stands an old castle, the residence of Sir George Sinclair of Ulbster. Pop. (of the town) 2908; (of the parish) 5096.