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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: ...signifies a Hey ward, or keeper of a herd of cattle in a common field. The Agillarious, or Heyward of a town, or village, was to supervise the greater cattle, or common herd of beasts, and keep them within due bounds, and was otherwise called Bubulcus, q. d. Cow-ward, whence the reproachful term Coward.--Dr. Rees's Cyclopedia. DOIT, HE IS NOT WORTH A DOIT, &c. Doitkin, or doit, was a base coin of small value. prohibited by the Stat. 3. Henry V. c. 1. We still retain the phrase, in saying, when we would undervalue a man, "that he is not worth a doit."--Jacob's Law Diet. FILBERT. Mr. Marshall in his ingenious work, entitled "The Rural Economy of the Southern Counties, 1798," has the following note, viz. Filbert. This is merely of the hazel. In some provincial dialects I have heard it called "full beard," and the fruit "full beards." Is not this the etymon? ROOKING--WHY THAT EXPRESSION FOR CHEATING. When rooks make their nests, one of the pair always sits by to watch it, while the other goes to fetch materials to build it. Else, if both go, and leave it unfinished, their fellow-rooks, before they return again, will have carried away, toward their several nests, all the sticks and materials they bad got together. Hence perhaps Rooking for cheating and abusing.--Ray's Proverbs. SPIT--AS TWO SPIT DEEP, &c. Spade-rit, the quantity of soil raised by one effort of the spade; is perhaps the etymon of Spit.--Provincialisms of the Midland Counties. Marshall's Rural Economy. THIMBLE. Minshew supposes thimble to be a corruption of thumb-bell. TRIDENT Is the sceptre which poets and painters put into the hands of Neptune. It is in the form of a spade or fork, with three prongs or teeth; hence the name. The poets inform us tha...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235868139
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235868133
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 141 gr


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