Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 2 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 73
Page 496
... fall from on high upon hookes , and there to hang untill they die by the anguish of their wounds , or more miserable famine . Sandys ' Travels . GANDER , v . To ramble about with- out object . East . GANDERGOOSE , 8. Ragwort . GANDER ...
... fall from on high upon hookes , and there to hang untill they die by the anguish of their wounds , or more miserable famine . Sandys ' Travels . GANDER , v . To ramble about with- out object . East . GANDERGOOSE , 8. Ragwort . GANDER ...
Page 506
... fall . Suff . ( 4 ) To gibbet a toad , to place it on a piece of wood , and by strik- ing one end precipitate it so as to kill it . GIBBLE - GABBLE , 8. Idle talk . " Gib ble - gabble talk . " Rabelais , by Motteux . GIBBOL , 8. The ...
... fall . Suff . ( 4 ) To gibbet a toad , to place it on a piece of wood , and by strik- ing one end precipitate it so as to kill it . GIBBLE - GABBLE , 8. Idle talk . " Gib ble - gabble talk . " Rabelais , by Motteux . GIBBOL , 8. The ...
Page 517
... fall in debt . To go from a thing , to deny it . Το go forward , to prosper . In Lei- cestershire , the verb is used with- out the preposition , as going Leicester , for going to Leicester . GOAD , 8. A gad . GOADS , S. ( 1 ) Customs ...
... fall in debt . To go from a thing , to deny it . Το go forward , to prosper . In Lei- cestershire , the verb is used with- out the preposition , as going Leicester , for going to Leicester . GOAD , 8. A gad . GOADS , S. ( 1 ) Customs ...
Page 526
... fall of hail , North . GRAILS , 8. The smaller feathers of a hawk . GRAIN , ( 1 ) 8. A scarlet colour used by dyers . ( 2 ) v . To strangle , gripe , or throttle . East . ( 3 ) 8. The prong of a fork . West . ( 4 ) s . Broken victuals ...
... fall of hail , North . GRAILS , 8. The smaller feathers of a hawk . GRAIN , ( 1 ) 8. A scarlet colour used by dyers . ( 2 ) v . To strangle , gripe , or throttle . East . ( 3 ) 8. The prong of a fork . West . ( 4 ) s . Broken victuals ...
Page 530
... pear . ( 3 ) A large stone bottle . North . GREY - LINNET , 8. The common linnet . North . GREYMIN , 8. A slight fall of snow . Cumb . GREYNE , v . ( 4.-N. ) To grow corn . GREY - RUSSET , 8. Coarse grey cloth . GREYS GRE GRE 530.
... pear . ( 3 ) A large stone bottle . North . GREY - LINNET , 8. The common linnet . North . GREYMIN , 8. A slight fall of snow . Cumb . GREYNE , v . ( 4.-N. ) To grow corn . GREY - RUSSET , 8. Coarse grey cloth . GREYS GRE GRE 530.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
15th cent ampt applied beat Berks bird blow boil bread called cattle Chesh cloth coarse colour cookery corn Cornw Country Wife Craven Cumb Derb Devon dish Dorset doth dress drink East Essex Exmoor fellow fish Florio fool Forme of Cury Futuere game at cards Glouc grass ground Hampsh hath hawk head hedge Heref hole horse iron Kent kind Knave lady Lanc land Leic Linc liquor noise Nomencl Norf North Northampt Northumb old cant term old name Oxfd Palsgr person piece plant play plough Portrait prep pret pron Pudendum Rennet Shakesp sheep Shoreham Shropsh simpleton Somers Somerset sort South Spens stone straw Suff Suffolk Suss Sussex Terence in English thee thou titmouse Trans tree Var.d vols walk Warner's Albions England Warw West Wight wild William de Shoreham Wilts wine woman wood wooden Yorksh young
Popular passages
Page 16 - ENNEMOSER'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c.
Page 10 - DIDRON'S Christian Iconography ; a History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. By the late AN Didron. Trans. by EJ Millington, and completed, with Additions and Appendices, by Margaret Stokes.
Page 10 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert ; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal ; and a Melange.
Page 2 - History of the House of Austria, From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 9 - HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English, from the Roman Invasion to the Accession of Henry II. ; with the Acts of King Stephen, and the Letter to Walter. By T. Forester, MA Frontispiece from an old MS.
Page 14 - In Prose, with Notes and Arguments, by Rev. J. Banks, MA To which are appended the METRICAL VERSIONS of Chapman. Portrait of Theocritus. THUCYDIDES. The Peloponnesian War. Trans., with Notes, by Rev. H. Dale. Portrait. 2 vols. 35. 6</. each. TYRT.EUS.— See Theocritus. VIRGIL. The Works of. In Prose, with Notes by Davidson.
Page 14 - ... and Mice. In English Prose, with Notes and Memoir by TA Buckley, BA HORACE. In Prose by Smart, with Notes selected by TA Buckley, BA Portrait. 3$. 6d. JULIAN THE EMPEROR. Containing. Gregory Mazianzea's Two Invectives and Libanus' Monody, with Julian's Theosophical Works.
Page 18 - A Dictionary of Political, Constitutional, Statistical, and Forensic Knowledge ; forming a Work of Reference on subjects of Civil Administration, Political Economy, Finance, Commerce, Laws, and Social Relations. 4 vols.
Page 5 - Memoirs of. Containing the Histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII., and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. With the History of Louis XL, by J.
Page 11 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.