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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt:... was another form of the pi. formed straight from the sing., cu-en=kine. In the Romance of A lisaunde apud Weber kuyn is used; 1. 760: "Oxen, schep, and eke kuyn Mony on he dude slen." In Vis, P. P. 4076, ed. Wright is /iyen. The old Frisian pi. is hij. 114. 68. youngster. The termination ster is said to be properly fem., as still in spinster; thus younger or younher would =puer, youngster--puella. But this feminine force seems to have decayed at a very early period. 69. Mate, also written Uait, bleat = bashful. It is from Oldest Eng. bled% gentle, slow, sluggish (Bosworth). Layamon uses it. laithftf--loathful = reluctant, unwilling, shy. We use loath in a much stronger sense. 72. lave is from the Oldest Eng. /«/=what is left (from leave, "A. S." laefan, as reliquus from relinquo, AcKTroy from A«tirw). 80. in others arms. Comp. I. 38. 93. soupe (or, sup), here means the milh, the liquid element in the entertainment. The word is used generally for "spoon-meat.1' The Oldest Eng. suparu. akin to Germ, saufen Sup, supper, soup, sop, are all ultimately connected. hawkie denotes properly a cow with a white face. So in Northumb. Bawsand was used of an animal with a white spot on its forehead. Crummie for a cow with crooked horns. 94. hallen. See note on ben, 1. 64. The word is said to be connected with haell, "th stone at the threshold." 96. weel-hairid = well-spared, carefully kept. Primitively hain perhaps = to hedge or enclose, See haining and hainite in Jamieson. hebbach = cheese, from Gael. cabag. So mattoch from Kel. madog. fell--tasty; strictly, biting, in which sense it is used in Northumb. In the general Eng. usage fell has only a bad sense, and is applied only to living things and to feelings and actions, or to other things with a moral refere...