Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a Copious Glossary, Illus. by Authorities from Ancient English & Scottish Writers, & Exemplified by Two Familiar Dialogues, Zväzok 1Crofts, 1828 - 359 strán (strany) |
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Strana 9
... signify the contraction & , and substituted for that conjunction , is not yet forgotten in the Nursery . And till within these few years , a child in spelling the word abate , for instance , would have said , a bytself a , b - a - t - e ...
... signify the contraction & , and substituted for that conjunction , is not yet forgotten in the Nursery . And till within these few years , a child in spelling the word abate , for instance , would have said , a bytself a , b - a - t - e ...
Strana 16
... the act of sacrificing , and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames , with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed . Baal or Ball " Baltein signifies the fire of Baal 16 GLOSSARY .
... the act of sacrificing , and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames , with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed . Baal or Ball " Baltein signifies the fire of Baal 16 GLOSSARY .
Strana 17
... signifies the fire of Baal . is the only word in Gaelic for a globe . This festival was probably in honour of the sun , whose return , in his appa- rent annual course , they celebrated , on account of his having a visible influence , by ...
... signifies the fire of Baal . is the only word in Gaelic for a globe . This festival was probably in honour of the sun , whose return , in his appa- rent annual course , they celebrated , on account of his having a visible influence , by ...
Strana 25
... signifying bearing or fruitful , should apply to animate and inanimate objects , which are unproductive and unfruitful . Dr. Johnson , making no comment on this improper use of the word , attempts to derive it from the Saxon word , bare ...
... signifying bearing or fruitful , should apply to animate and inanimate objects , which are unproductive and unfruitful . Dr. Johnson , making no comment on this improper use of the word , attempts to derive it from the Saxon word , bare ...
Strana 26
... signifies a fruitful or populated country.- See Preface of Thompson's Etymons of English Words , 4to . 1826 . BASTER , A heavy blow . BASS , Matting made , not as supposed by Mr. Todd , of rush , but of the inner bark of birch . The ...
... signifies a fruitful or populated country.- See Preface of Thompson's Etymons of English Words , 4to . 1826 . BASTER , A heavy blow . BASS , Matting made , not as supposed by Mr. Todd , of rush , but of the inner bark of birch . The ...
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Dialect of Craven, in the Westriding of the County of York: With a ..., Zväzok 1 William Carr Úplné zobrazenie - 1828 |
The Dialect of Craven, in the West-Riding of the County of York ..., Zväzok 1 William Carr Úplné zobrazenie - 1828 |
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2d vol Allan Ramsay Antiq applied Bartas beat BELG Ben Jonson Brand's Pop Brockett Burns called carrion crow cattle Chauc Chaucer clam common corn corruption Cotgrave Craven crooked derives Dialect doth Doug Douglas Virg Du Bartas dung English etymon expression Fairfax Tasso feaful fellow fire frequently gang Gentle Shepherd Glossary GOTH hath hence horse House of Fame Idem iron Jamieson Johnson King kittle KNAA labour language LEET Linn Lord mell Miege milk Minshew Minst Moor Nares nivver obsolete person Piers Plou Plou Poems Præt probably Quentin Durward Richmondshire Ronan's Saxon says Scotch Scotland Scottish sense Shaks Shakspeare sheep shoe Shoe's signifies Skinner Spenser stone substantive Supp supposed Tale TEUT thee thing thou Thou's Tim Bobbin Todd Trans Tusser verb Verstegan Vide wapentake weel WELSH Wiclif word
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Strana 285 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Strana 221 - tis a lie, I am not ague-proof. Glo. The trick of that voice I do well remember : Is't not the king ? Lear. Ay, every inch a king : When I do stare, see, how the subject quakes.
Strana 100 - And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin...
Strana 204 - UPON a simmer Sunday morn, When Nature's face is fair, I walked forth to view the corn, An' snuff the caller air. The rising sun, owre Galston muirs, Wi' glorious light was glintin ; The hares were hirplin down the furs, The lav'rocks they were chantin Fu
Strana 242 - There were the ware of a wight yeoman, His body leaned to a tree. A sword and a dagger he wore by his side, Of manye a man the bane ; And he was clad in his capull hyde Topp and tayll and mayne. Stand you still, master...
Strana 80 - Her cutty sark, o' Paisley harn, That while a lassie she had worn, In longitude tho' sorely scanty, It was her best, and she was vauntie. — Ah ! little kend thy reverend grannie, That sark she coft for her wee Nannie, Wi...
Strana 297 - Tam, had'st thou but been sae wise, As taen thy ain wife Kate's advice! She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober; That ilka melder wi...
Strana 81 - Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will burn.
Strana 109 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Strana 161 - my sight soon mayst thou be! I grantit nevir a traitor's life, And now I'll not begin wi' thee!' 'Grant me my life, my liege, my King! And a bonny gift I'll gie to thee Gude four-and-twenty ganging mills, That gang thro ' a