Etymologisches woerterbuch der englischen sprache, Part 1 |
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Page 323 - the wood of the pine so called because, more than any other sort of wood, it is put out in portions for various purposes; a plank of wood is a deal, which word is now restricted to the pine;
Page 243 - Bosw. schon ags. clough, a cleft of a rock or down the side of a hill (Somner); aber schwerlich als ags.
Page 104 - ... familiar adjunct, sister-mine, brother-mine, &c. " Mam, mother-mine, or mammie, as children first call their mothers," Florio, p. 297. Mother ofmee, Hoffman, 1631. MINE-EARTH. A white earth near the surface of the ground, a certain sign or indication of iron ore or iron stone. Staff. MINEVER. The fur of the ermine mixed with that of the small weasel. The white stoat is called a minifer in Norfolk. MING. (1) To mind or observe. To ming at one, to mention. North. To ming the miller's eye out, ie...
Page 263 - ... originated in a joke. Daly, the manager of a Dublin play-house, wagered that a word of no meaning should be the common talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-four hours. In the course of that time the letters quiz were chalked on all the walls of Dublin with an effect that won the wager.
Page 291 - ... properly to go over again like a harrow, fr. herce, over a ploughed field : vgl.
Page 57 - To be left in the lurch. A metaphor from the gaming-table. It. lurcio, Fr. lourche, ourche, G. lurz, lurtsch, a game at tables ; also a term used when one party gains every point before the other makes one.
Page 415 - heaven" is only the perfect of "to heave;" and is so called because it is "heaved" or "heaven" up, being properly the sky as it is raised aloft; the "smith" has his name from the sturdy blows that he "smites
Page 300 - CU'DDY was a name first applied in East India trading ships to a cabin under the poop, where the men messed and slept. The same name was afterwards given to the only cabin in very small vessels, and sometimes to the cooking-room.
Page 348 - Also, a balk or slip of unploughed ground. (5) Grief; sorrow. (A.-N.} Still in use in the North. (6) A piece of heath or common off which only one person has a right to cut fuel. Xorf. (7) The bowels, blood, and feet of adeer, which were given to the hounds after the hunt. Blome, ii. 87. (8 ) A low flat place. West. (9) Happy man lie his dole, let his lot be happy, or happy be he who succeeds best.
Page 449 - Lincoln, f. 68. FLEE-FLOWNS. The eggs of flies in meat. Dorset. FLEEING-EATHER. The dragon-fly. North. FLEEK. A flitch of bacon. North. FLEEN. Fleas. Chaucer. FLEENURT. A field flower of a yellow colour. Lane. FLEER. To laugh ; to grin ; to sneer. " I fleere, I make an yvell countenaunce with the mouthe by uncoveryng of the tethe,