But, of the
publication announced, it would not become me to say anything more, as
the biographer is
Your faithful servant,
W.S.G.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
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ETYMOLOGICAL QUERIES.
(Vol. ii., p. 153.)
The very satisfactory replies of Mr. WAY to some of the Queries of J.
MN., given at p. 169-70., make us wish for more, which I trust we shall
have, should he be supplied with the context in which the words occur;
without which it is difficult {204} to elucidate them fully. In the
meantime, I venture a few suggestions on some of the remaining words.
"In the fever or the _berebarde_,"
"_Berbi_, O.F., chancre, dartre; a _boil, bubo_, or _tetter_,
commonly attendant upon pestilent fever. 'Correpta fuit
vehementissima febri. Subtus ejus axillis detectis quoque
_Bubonibus_, magnam duritiem ac timorem prae se
ferentibus.'"--_Miraculi S. Francisci Solani, A.S._, tom. v.,
Julii, p. 909.
(See Bullein's _Dialogue bothe pleasant and pitiful, wherein is a goalie
regimente against the Fever Pestilence_, &c., 1578.)
"_Deale_," if an interjection (?), may possibly stand for "_Dea_," or
"_Ouy Dea_, Yes, truly! verily!" &c. (See Cotgrave in v. _Dea_.)
"_Schunche away_".--To _shun_ or _shunche_ is used for to _shove_, in
Sussex. "I _shunched_ him away."
"Wear no iron, nor haircloth, nor _irspilles felles_"--that is, no
_skins having hard or bristly hair_ like that of goats.
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