Notes and Queries
NOTES:-- Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass." 129 Folk Lore:--Sympathetic Cures--Cure for Ague--Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young. 130 Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault. 131 A Note on Spelling,--"Sanatory," "Connection." 131 Minor Notes:--Pasquinade on Leo XII....
_Gradely._--What is the meaning, origin, and usage of this word? I remember once hearing it used in Yorkshire by a man, who, speaking of a neighbour recently dead, said in a ton...
3. Chapter 3Why may we not have the liberty of forming a plural noun _news_ from the adjective _new_, though we have never used the singular _new_ as a noun, when the French have indulged t...
1. Chapter 1NOTES:-- Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass." 129 Folk Lore:--Sympathetic Cures--Cure for Ague--Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young. 130 Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. R...
4. Chapter 4We learn from our able and well-informed contemporary, _The Athenæum_ that "one curious fact has already arisen out of the proposal for the restoration of Chaucer's Monument,--w...