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... signifies to excel . ] Huge , beating or excelling in size other things of the same kind . Common in many parts ... signify inten- tion ; to intimate . Dr. Jennings . BARENHOND May it not mean to carry information to a person , that is ...
... signifies to excel . ] Huge , beating or excelling in size other things of the same kind . Common in many parts ... signify inten- tion ; to intimate . Dr. Jennings . BARENHOND May it not mean to carry information to a person , that is ...
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... signifies to moisten meat with butter , and thus we have Mr. Forby's first meaning . BASE , s . A perch . Cumb . A sea perch in Hampshire . BASHY , adj . Fat ; swollen . North . [ Bosse . Fr. a . [ Boss or thick body . ] BASTERLY ...
... signifies to moisten meat with butter , and thus we have Mr. Forby's first meaning . BASE , s . A perch . Cumb . A sea perch in Hampshire . BASHY , adj . Fat ; swollen . North . [ Bosse . Fr. a . [ Boss or thick body . ] BASTERLY ...
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... signifies to " bid or bed " it is pro- bably a corruption of those two words ; when it signifies " to pray , " then Grose's derivation from bead is right ; but bead is indirectly ( not directly ) the origin of prayer . When the monks or ...
... signifies to " bid or bed " it is pro- bably a corruption of those two words ; when it signifies " to pray , " then Grose's derivation from bead is right ; but bead is indirectly ( not directly ) the origin of prayer . When the monks or ...
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... signifying a slight swelling , puffed out with air and water , that is with nothing solid . ] Shal- low pated ; stupid . Suss . Hants . As regards " blather " being used for " bladder , " one observation here may suffice , viz : that ...
... signifying a slight swelling , puffed out with air and water , that is with nothing solid . ] Shal- low pated ; stupid . Suss . Hants . As regards " blather " being used for " bladder , " one observation here may suffice , viz : that ...
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... signifying a woman's bonnet , particularly a " slouch , " I shall merely hazard the question as to whether it may not be ... signifies a person , and has generally an epithet attached to it , as a clever body , " " a simple body , " & c ...
... signifying a woman's bonnet , particularly a " slouch , " I shall merely hazard the question as to whether it may not be ... signifies a person , and has generally an epithet attached to it , as a clever body , " " a simple body , " & c ...
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applied Bailey beer Belg Berks bird blow bread Brit called cask cattle cheese Cheshire cloth coarse common corn Corruption counties Craven Craven Dialect Cumb Derby derived Devon Dillo dirty ditch Ditto dress drink dung East Sussex Essex Exmoor fasten fellow Fenning fire Forby Germ Glouc Goth grass Grose ground Hampshire Hants head heap hedge hence hole horse horse's idle implying intj iron Kent Lanc land Linc liquor means milk noise Norf North Northumb pass peas Perhaps person piece plough prep probably pron rain Rennet Scotch sheep signifies Somerset South stick stone straw Suff Suss Teut thick thing titmouse tree v. a. To beat v. a. To throw vessel walk Warw Welch West wheel whence wind wood wooden word York young
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