From: Jim an' Nell,
A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon. By William Frederick Rock, 1867, Peart II Scene out ta Whitveel Bartin P. 25
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also MAULLY, MAULY, MAWLEY, MAWLY, MORLEY, ? MYLIER DEFINITIONS CONTINUED n. 3. a finger; usually used in plural ...M19 sl. CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ? from maul (vb.); but cf. Shelta (tinker's dialect) malya, said to be a transposition of Gaelic lamh hand 1780, 1789? - Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Private and Public Life; George Parker; see Example below From: Life's Painter of Variegated Characters in Private and Public Life
By George Parker The Second Edition, 1800 P. 136 1613 - The Sinners Passing-Bell; Or a Complaint from Heaven of Mans Sinnes, Thomas Adams; see Example below From: The Works of Thomas Adams:
Being the Sum of his Sermons, Meditations, and other Divine and Moral Discourses Volume I, Containing Sermons from Texts in the Old Testament, etc., 1861 The Sinner's Passing-Bell Sermon XX P. 348 1636 - Discoveries, Jactura vitæ, Ben Jonson; see Example below From: Timber: Or Discoveries
By Ben Jonson, 1641 Explorata: Or Discoveries P. 88 from Anglo-French irous, Old French iros, irus, later ireux, = Provencal iros, Italian iroso:—popular Latin type īrōsus, from īra ire 1303 - Handlyng Synne, Robert Manning of Brunne; see below From: Roberd of Brunne's Handlyng Synne Written A.D. 1303 Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, 1862 P. 223 From: A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain
Volume the First The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1793 The Canterbury Tales, The Sompnoures Tale P. 69 adjective: from Latin propinquātus brought near, pa. pple. of propinquāre to draw near verb: from ppl. stem of Latin propinquāre to bring near, to draw near 1623 - The English Dictionarie of 1623, Henry Cockeram: "Propinquate, to approach" From: Culpeper's English Physician;
And Complete Herbal. Edited by E. Sibly, 1794 Prefix. ix. from of- + walked, pa. pple. of walk (vb.) 1377 - The Vision of William Concerning Piers B. text 1377, William Langland; see Example below From: The Vision and the Creed of Piers Ploughman
With Notes and Glossary by Thomas Wright, Volume I, 1842 P. 258 From: Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West-Florida...
By William Bartram The Second Edition, 1794 P. 191 from Latin insānia from insanus insane + -ous 1656 - Don Zara del Fogo; A Mock-Romance, Samuel Holland;
see below from E-NED from Latin circumquāque on every side, all round 1556 - The Spider and the Flie, A Parable, John Heywood; see Example below From: The Spider and the Flie
By John Heywood Reprinted from the Original of 1556 Printed for the Spenser Society, 1894 P. 169 from dunce + -ic + -al 1588 - A Discoursive Probleme Concerning Prophesies, John Harvey; see below from E-NED From: The Works of Francis Rabelais
Translated from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Motteux, 1653 Volume II, Printed for the Navarre Society, 18?? The Fourth Book of Dr. Francis Rabelais Chapter LIII, How, by the Virtue of the Decretals, Gold is subtilly drawn out of France to Rome P. 242 a jocular reference to the zeal of bishops for burning heretics From: Miscellanies
By Jonathan Swift The Twelfth Volume The Fifth Edition. 1751 Polite Conversation Printed in the Year 1738 Dialogue I P. 179 1565 - Translation of Marcellus Palingenius' The Zodiake of Life, Barnaby Googe; see below from E-NED From: Metrical Pieces, Translated and Original.
By N.L. Frothingham, 1855 The Phenomena, or Appearances of the Stars. Translated from the Greek of Aratus. P. 41 also BATAYLLOUS, BATELLOUS, BATELOUSE, BATAILLOUS, BATAILOUS, BATTALOUSE, BATTAYLOUS, BATTELLOUS, BATTELOUS, BATTLOUS CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES from Old French bataillos (-eus), from bataille battle + -ous c 1380 - Select English Works, John Wyclif; see below From: Select English Works of John Wyclif Edited by Thomas Arnold Volume III, 1871 Exegetical and Didactic Cap. XXXI P. 165 From: Among My Books
Second Series By James Russell Lowe Twenty-Fourth Edition, 1896 Volume III. Miscellaneous Works Wordsworth P. 241 from critico- combining form (after Greek κριτικο-) = critically, critical + -phobia 1836 - Fraser's Magazine, Volume XIII (as per E-NED); earlier example (1809) shown below From: The Athenæum:
A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information Volume V, January to June 1809 On the Criticophobia, Democritus Minor P. 119 from alder- variant of aller- general plural of 'all', used in combination as alder-best, alder-liefest From: The Pictorial Book of Ballads,
Traditional and Romantic, Edited by J.S. Moore, 1849 A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode The Fyfth Fytte P. 183 1652 - Pys-Mantia The Magastromancer, Or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posted, and Puzzled, John Gaule, 1652; see Example below From: Pys-Mantia The Magastromancer,
Or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posted, and Puzzled, By John Gaule, 1652 Chapter II. From the Truth of Faith P. 47 DEFINITIONS CONTINUED VERB 2. to journey toilsomely, to travel (obsolete rare) 3. to drink deeply, to tipple (obsolete) 4. to shrink (American) also SQUINK, SQUYNK, SQUYNKE, SUENK, SUINC, SUINCK, SUINK, SUINKE, SUYNK, SWINC, SWINCAN, SWINCK, SWINCKE, SWINKE, SWINKEN, SWUNK, SWYNK, SWYNKE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES Noun: Old English swinc str. (n.) (1) trouble, chastisement, (2) labour, toil (cf. swincfull swinkful, swincléas swinkless, swincliacuc laborious), also ᵹeswinc i-swinch, i-swink, nouns of action to swincan to swink Verb: Old English swincan, pa. tense swanc, swuncon, pa. pple. swuncen, parallel formation to swingan, swing (vb.) c 1000 - (Saxon) Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England; see below from E-NED (for trouble, afliction) From: The Poetical Works of James Thomson, James Beattie,
Gilbert West, and John Bampfylde, 1855 The Castle of Indolence, Canto II. P. 162 From: Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Volume XXII, 1845 Recent Novels on the Condition-of-Ireland Question P. 181 |
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