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8th century A. S. Leechdoms Addenda Albans allied Anglo-F Anglo-French Arab Arber Arnold's Chron Ben Jonson Book of St borrowed Burguy called Catholicon Catholicon Anglicum Celtic Chaucer cites cognate connection corruption Cotgrave Cursor Mundi derived Dict Dictionary Diez dimin Ducange edition English Errata etymology explains Florio Folk-Etymology French Furnivall Gael given gives Gloss Glossary Goth Halliwell Hence Hexham Icel Irish Ital Langtoft's Chron last line Latin Layamon Lewis and Short Liber Albus Liber Custumarum Littré Low G Low Lat M. E. form means merely Myst occurs orig origin Ormulum Palmer Palsgrave Parv Perhaps Plowman prefix prob Prov read F Realm Reliq remarks root Roquefort Scand Scheler sense shews sing Span spelling spelt Stat Stratmann strong verb suffix suggests supposed Swed Teut Walloon Wedgwood whence word Wright's Voc Year-Books of Edw
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Page 783 - ... tables into their own ; or because the pieces are sometimes taken up and obliged to go back — that is, re-enter at the table they came from.
Page 801 - The famous Doily is still fresh in every one's memory, who raised a fortune by finding out materials for such stuffs as might at once be cheap and genteel.
Page 788 - Fr.) a rope fastened near the middle of the leech, or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by three or four subordinate parts, called bridles. It is only used when the wind is so...
Page 799 - Cupola. ^-A dome-like vault on the top of an edifice, usually on a tower or steeple, as of a public building. The word as commonly used means a small tower or turret built on the top of a building. ' Curb-plate. — The plate in a curb-roof that receives the feet of the upper rafters. Dado. — The die or square part in the middle of the pedestal of a column, between the base and the cornice ; also that part of an apartment between the plinth and the impost moulding. Dentil. — An ornamental square...
Page 786 - ... with the colour of the eyes of a cat would seem to point to the cat's eye (see Borooah's Engl. Sanskrit Dictionary, vol. ii, preface, p. ix), certainly not to lapis lazuli. Cat's eye is a kind of chalcedony. I see, however, that...
Page 795 - Professor Skeat's Etymological Dictionary : ME cokeney answers precisely to a F. coquine, Low L. coquinatus, and I suspect that Mr. Wedgwood has practically solved this word by suggesting to me that it is founded on L. coquina, a kitchen. We might imagine coquinatus to have meant, as a term of reproach, a vagabond who hung about a kitchen of a large mansion for the sake of what he could get to eat, or a child brought up in the kitchen among servants. We may particularly note F. coquineau, ' a scoundrel!,...
Page 802 - Metaphoram ; sicut enim district! et terribilis examinis illius novissimi sententia nulla tergiversationis arte valet eludi : sic cum orta fuerit in regno contentio de his rebus quae illic annotantur, cum ventum fuerit ad Librum, sententia ejus infatuari non potest vel impune declinari.
Page 795 - There came in my time to the College one Nathaniel Conopios, out of Greece, from Cyrill, the patriarch of Constantinople, who, returning many years after, was made (as I ,understand) Bishop of Smyrna. He was the first I ever saw drink coffee; which custom came not into England till thirty years after.
Page 815 - To punish in the seamen' s way, by dragging the criminal under water on one side of the ship, and up again on the other.