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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesallied to A. S. Allied to Gk Allied to Icel answers Arab Aryan base beat belonging bend bird blow borrowed Bret called Celtic origin cent cloth cognate Coined colour confused corruption Cotgrave crude form derived dial Diez dimin fern fish Florio formed with suffix Formerly French frequent Goth hence Hexham horse Icel imitative Irish and Gael Ital kind later Lith Lithuan Littre Low G Low Latin Lowl means nasalised form neut Norw Norweg orig Perhaps allied Pers piece plant Port prefix prep Prob prov root Roquefort round Russ Scand sense shew shine ship short sing sound Span spelling spelt stem of pres strike strong verb super Swed Teut tree turn twist variant vowel-change weak verb weakened form whence wind wood word Popular passagesPage 132 - ... the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger... Page 408 - Rhumb, a line for directing a ship's course on a chart ; a point of the compass. (F. — Span. •- L. — Gk.) See Rumb in Phillips. •— F. rumb, Page 297 - The word is imitative, from the sound mum or mom, used by nurses to frighten or amuse children, at the same time pretending to cover their faces. Page 91 - Port, and Span, coco, a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children ; hence applied to the cocoa-nut on account of the monkey-like face at the base of the nut. Page 190 - Average (Lat. averagium, from averia, ie cattle) signifies service which the tenant owes the king or other lord, by horse or ox, or by carriage with either... Page 559 - Whig is a shortened form of whiggamor, applied to certain Scotchmen who came from the west to buy corn at Leith ; from the word whiggam, employed by these men in driving their horses. A march to Edinburgh made by Argyle was called ' the whiggamor's inroad/ and afterwards those who were opposed to the court came to be called whigs. Page 293 - On mortgage Prof. Skeat ('Etym. Diet.') quotes Webster:— " It was called a mortgage or dead pledge, because, whatever profit it might yield, it did not thereby redeem itself, but became lost or dead to the mortgagee on breach of the condition." So Littleton (sect. 332) says the land " is taken from him for ever, and is dead to him... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarEcosystemic Epistemology: An Alternative Paradigm for DiagnosisBRADFORD P KEENEY - 1979 - Family Process Why Behavior Analysts Should Study Emotion: The Example Of AnxietyPatrick C Friman, Steven C Hayes, Kelly G Wilson Corpus-based Learning of Analogies and Semantic RelationsPeter D Turney, Michael L Littman - 2005 - Machine Learning Frankincense and myrrhArthur O Tucker - 1986 - Economic Botany References from web pagesVarieties of Unreligious Experience: Monkey puzzle A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Cosimo ... Swoon: Definition with Swoon Pictures and Photos Libri di Etymology - Libreriauniversitaria.it Digital Library of India Tmecca : A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language ... Segnala "A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language ... Etymologiske ordbøker over germanske språk Bibliographic information
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