A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, Band 1J.R. Smith, 1850 |
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Seite 7 - 135. ACCIDENT. A symptom of illness. Rider. The situation of a too confiding girl, when her swain has proved faithless, is sometimes thus politely designated : " When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray." ACCIDIE. Indolence; sloth. He hadde an accidie, That he sleep
Seite 138 - BASES. Defined by Nares to be, " a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback." Writers of the seventeenth century seem occasionally to apply the term to any kind of skirts, and sometimes even to the hose. See
Seite 135 - of corn was formerly in vogue in Norfolk, but is now disused. BARLEY-BREAK. An ancient rural game, thus described by Gifford. It was played by six people, three of each sex, who were coupled by lot. A piece of ground was then chosen, and divided into three compartments, of which the middle one was called
Seite 13 - See the Comedy of Errors, iv. 3, " Not that Adam that kept the paradise, but that Adam that keeps the prison." ADAM-AND-EVE. The bulbs of orchis macúlala, which have a fancied resemblance to the human figure. Craven.
Seite vii - my lap, I's ca'ta word frae thee. I'll hie me to the bow'r Where yews wi' roses tred, And where, wi' monie a blushing bud, I strove my face to hide ; I'll doat on ilka spot, Where I ha'e been wi' thee, And ca' to mind some kindly look 'Neath ilka hollow tree. Wi' sec thoughts i
Seite 66 - APPROBATION. (1) Proof; approval. — How many, now in health, Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to Henry Г. i.
Seite 80 - which is apparently plagiarised by Gray in the following passage. Now the storm begins to lower, Haste, the loom of hell prepare ! Iron sleet of arrowy shower Hurtles In the
Seite 248 - moulding of cockle-bread, viz. they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, &c." See further particulars in Thorns' Anee, and Trad, p. 95. I question whether the term
Seite 48 - 6974 AMONGE. Amidst; at intervals, Cf. Ellis's Met. Rom. ii. 387; Ritson's Anc. Pop. Poet p. 44. The phrase ever among, in Rom. of the Rose, 3771, and 2 Henry IV. v. 3, means ever from time to time, ever at intervals. Be it right or wrong. These men among On women do complaine.
Seite xv - taryed atte Forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them. And one of theym, named Sheffelde, a mercer, cam into an hows and axed for mete, and specially he axyd after eggys ; and the goodc wyf answerde that she coude speke no Frenshe, and the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde have hadde egges, and she understode