A Dictionary of English Etymology, Volume 1Trübner, 1859 - 1644 páginas |
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Termos e frases comuns
allodium animal applied ball beat belly bend bird blot blow body Bohem boil boss Bret bubble bunch busk butt called cascare Chap chatter Chaucer clap claw clob clod cloth colour commonly connexion Cotgr crack crooked derived Dict Diez dregs dress dull English equivalent Esthon explained expressed false etymology Finnish languages flax formerly Fris Gael give Goth Grisons head Hence hollow horse Icel imitation kind knob knock kopano koppa language Libraries Lith lump manner meaning mouth noise notion one's Onomatopoeia origin paljas piece probably properly Prov quod represented root Rouchi round Russ seems sense ship shiver signifying sound stick stone stop strike stupify swelling Swiss syllable term thence thick thing tion tree Trübner Vaud Venet verb vessel whence word Wört
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Página 318 - I showed the statute to you. Face. You did so. Dap. And will I tell then ! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If I discover.
Página xx - His godlike guest, walks forth, without more train Accompanied than with his own complete Perfections ; in himself was all his state, More solemn than the tedious pomp that waits On princes when their rich retinue long Of horses led, and grooms besmeared with gold, Dazzles the crowd, and sets them all agape.
Página xxiii - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news, Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent : Another lean, unwash'd artificer Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death.
Página 497 - I have had frequent occasion to consult your Dictionary, and I have scarcely ever failed to find what I sought. I have no hesitation in saying that it is far superior to any other work of the kind in our language.
Página 500 - Grey. — HANDBOOK OF AFRICAN, AUSTRALIAN, AND POLYNESIAN PHILOLOGY, as represented in the Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, KCB, Her Majesty's High Commissioner of the Cape Colony. Classed, Annotated, and Edited by Sir GEORGE GREY and Dr. HI BLEEK. Vol. I. Part 1.— South Africa.
Página 89 - ... but calling it banter, and the work is done. This polite word of theirs was first borrowed from the bullies in Whitefriars, then fell among the footmen, and at last retired to the pedants...
Página 342 - The original meaning of cockney is a child too tenderly or delicately nurtured, one kept in the house and not hardened by out-ofdoors life ; hence applied to citizens, as opposed to the hardier inhabitants of the country, and in modern times confined to the inhabitants of London. The Promptorium Parvulorum, and the authorities cited in Mr. Way's note, give ' Coknay, carifotus, delicius, mammotrophus ' ; ' To bring up like a cocknaye, mignoter.' ' Delicias facere, to play the cockney.
Página xxiii - But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
Página 145 - ... in the towns of Windsor and Newmarket, and have, and frequently do commit divers other misdemeanours and disorders in such places where they resort, to the prejudice of His Majesty's subjects, for the prevention of which evills and misdemeanours hereafter, Wee do hereby strictly charge and command all those so called the Black-guard as aforesaid, with all other loose, idle, masterless men...
Página 85 - Cyrene's torrid soil, — . Levied to side with warring winds, and poise Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.