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... taken about 4 P. M. In more carnivorous days it may have been a time of meat , and the word may be deducible from Beeve , Beef . If , as noticed under CoSTARD , we have a num- ber of designations for the head , and under AINT , that we ...
... taken about 4 P. M. In more carnivorous days it may have been a time of meat , and the word may be deducible from Beeve , Beef . If , as noticed under CoSTARD , we have a num- ber of designations for the head , and under AINT , that we ...
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... taken perhaps from Ray , " Bouds , i.e. weevils , an insect breeding in malt . Norf . Suff . Essex . " E. W. p . 71. Thus in Tusser Good bread - corn and drink - corn , full twenty weeks kept , Is better than new , that at harvest is ...
... taken perhaps from Ray , " Bouds , i.e. weevils , an insect breeding in malt . Norf . Suff . Essex . " E. W. p . 71. Thus in Tusser Good bread - corn and drink - corn , full twenty weeks kept , Is better than new , that at harvest is ...
Page 71
... taken off in a different form by both hands of another of the party . Each of these forms has a particular name . That at the head of this article is one - barn - doors , bowling green , hour - glass , pound , net , diamonds , fish pond ...
... taken off in a different form by both hands of another of the party . Each of these forms has a particular name . That at the head of this article is one - barn - doors , bowling green , hour - glass , pound , net , diamonds , fish pond ...
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... taken this explanation from Nare's Glossary . It is our Suffolk sense of the word . See KIDDIER . COIN or QUOIN . In masonry the angle or corner of a wall . In Nares we read " Coigne a corner stone ; the finish of a building at the ...
... taken this explanation from Nare's Glossary . It is our Suffolk sense of the word . See KIDDIER . COIN or QUOIN . In masonry the angle or corner of a wall . In Nares we read " Coigne a corner stone ; the finish of a building at the ...
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... taken in 1646. Bib . Top . Brit . No. XII . ap . p . 54. Thus , dotard , for a decayed imbecile person . Doddered seems to be the same word . So it fareth with the same tree in its decay : for it becomes sapless and doddered , one ...
... taken in 1646. Bib . Top . Brit . No. XII . ap . p . 54. Thus , dotard , for a decayed imbecile person . Doddered seems to be the same word . So it fareth with the same tree in its decay : for it becomes sapless and doddered , one ...
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AINT ANINND applied Bailey basket beat believe bird blow BUTES called Cheshire child Cocker common commonly corn COSTARD country words curious derived especially Essex explains farther flump French given Glossary GOOF grass Grose hare hassock Hawstead head Hence Hengrave Hall horse Icelandic Jameison land Macbeth meaning milk mode Nares adds Nares gives Nares says Nares shows nearly never heard Norf Norfolk north country north country word noticed Nunch old word Othello passage pease perhaps PERK phrase piece plough poonch pretty probably pronounced proverb quotation quotes recollect referred rhyme Saxon Scotch Scotland Scottish seems Shakespeare sheep Shuckled SKEWBALD snaggy sometimes sort sound spelled Spenser straw strike Suffolk sense Suffolk word suppose term thing thou timber tion tree Tusser verb verse wheat whelk wood word occurs YANGLE yeow young
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