A Glossary of North Country Words, in Use: From an Original Manuscript, in the Library of John George Lambton, Esq., M. P., with Considerable AdditionsE. Charnley, 1825 - 243 páginas |
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... due to the Rev. Henry Cotes , Vicar of Bedlington , for repeated acts of attention , and for many communications , which his extensive personal acquaint- ance with the Northumbrian dialect rendered so acceptable . For xvi PREFACE .
... due to the Rev. Henry Cotes , Vicar of Bedlington , for repeated acts of attention , and for many communications , which his extensive personal acquaint- ance with the Northumbrian dialect rendered so acceptable . For xvi PREFACE .
Página xvii
... with his enquiries . To Henry Ellis , Esq . of the British Museum , the author ten- ders his thanks for pointing out to him , among the Lansdowne Manuscripts , the very curious and select Glossary compiled by PREFACE . xvii.
... with his enquiries . To Henry Ellis , Esq . of the British Museum , the author ten- ders his thanks for pointing out to him , among the Lansdowne Manuscripts , the very curious and select Glossary compiled by PREFACE . xvii.
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... HENRY HOWARD . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN RUSSELL , M. P. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY LOUISA LAMBTON . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON , F. R. & A. S. Private and Episcopal Libraries . THE HONOURABLE ...
... HENRY HOWARD . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD JOHN RUSSELL , M. P. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY LOUISA LAMBTON . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND THE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON , F. R. & A. S. Private and Episcopal Libraries . THE HONOURABLE ...
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... HENRY THOMAS LIddell . THE HONOURABLE W. F. GRANT , OF GRANT , M. P. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS WALLACE , M. P. Master of the Mint . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR THOMAS PLUMER , KNIGHT , late Master of the Rolls . THE HONOURABLE SIR JOHN ...
... HENRY THOMAS LIddell . THE HONOURABLE W. F. GRANT , OF GRANT , M. P. THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THOMAS WALLACE , M. P. Master of the Mint . THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR THOMAS PLUMER , KNIGHT , late Master of the Rolls . THE HONOURABLE SIR JOHN ...
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... Henry Armstrong , Newcastle . Mr. William Armstrong , Town's Chamber , Newcastle . Nat . Atcheson , Esq . F. S. A. Duke Street , Westminster . Robert Shank Atcheson , Esq . Duke Street , Westminster . Matthew Atkinson , Esq . Carr's ...
... Henry Armstrong , Newcastle . Mr. William Armstrong , Town's Chamber , Newcastle . Nat . Atcheson , Esq . F. S. A. Duke Street , Westminster . Robert Shank Atcheson , Esq . Duke Street , Westminster . Matthew Atkinson , Esq . Carr's ...
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Æsop ancient Antiq applied Aw'l bairn Barrister at Law beat Beaum bird BIZON BLASH Brand's Pop bread cake called Canny Newcassel castle cattle Chaucer common copies corn corruption Crav creils dialect dirty Durham fair fellow female fire Flet Gael Gateshead Germ Gloss Glossary grass Grose Hence Henry hinny horse iron Jamieson JOHN GEORGE LAMBTON Johnson keel keelmen kind lads language London Lord means milk Mirror for Magistrates Mo.-Got Moor Nares Newcastle noise North country North Shields Northern Northumberland Northumbrian obsolete Old Eng old word originally Peirs Ploughman perhaps person piece Pure Saxon RIGHT HONOURABLE Saxon says Scotch sense Shak Shakspeare sheep Song sort Spenser stone Su.-Got Suff term Teut thing Thomas Todd Todd's John Tyne vulgar Welsh Wilb Willan William writers young
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Página 188 - O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Macb. There's comfort yet, they are assailable; Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown His cloister'd flight; ere to black Hecate's summons The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Página 158 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 113 - Come, come ; good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well us'd : exclaim no more against it.
Página 17 - Through they were lin'd with many a piece Of ammunition bread and cheese, And fat black-puddings, proper food For warriors that delight in blood : For, as we said, he always chose To carry vittle in his hose, That often tempted rats and mice The ammunition to surprise : And when he put a hand but in The one or t...
Página 110 - KELD, the still part of a river, which has an oily smoothness, while the rest of the water is ruffled. I have only heard this word on the Tyne, and confined to the meaning here given ; but a friend, who lately visited...
Página 190 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Página 122 - Court his chaste mate to acts of love ; Or on that bank feel the west wind Breathe health and plenty, please my mind To see sweet dewdrops kiss these flowers, And then...
Página 185 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fall'n into the sear , the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age , As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have...
Página 229 - Eve, from eleven o'clock at night till one in the morning. The third year (for this must be done thrice,) they are supposed to see the ghosts of all those who are to die the next year, pass by into the church.
Página 231 - WELSH, insipid. Teut. gaelsch. Welsh and wallow are synonyma. Broth and water, and pottage without salt, are wallow or welsh. A person whose face has a raw, pale, and unhealthy look — whom a keen frosty morning pinches, and to whom it gives an appearance of misery and poverty — has a welsh and wallow face. A welsh day, is the same as a sleety day, when it is neither thaw nor frost : but a wallow day is when a cold, strong and hollow wind prevails. Wallow, applied to the state of the weather,...