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1. Dog that pursues foxes, badgers, &c., run to earth (fr. French terre).-2. Originally, American bird. First sold by so-called " Turkey " merchants.---3. Corruption of French : Jeu de Harpe.4. Or St. Grail, corruption from Sang-Real, i.e., Royal Blood.-5. Arbitrary word invented by Dutch chemist, Van Helmont, seventeenth century.-6. Really sunflower arti- choke. Corruption from It; Girasole : sunflower.---=1. Originally hawks' moulting cages, from French : muer, to moult. The meaning, a row of stables, arose when the Royal Stables in 1534 were rebuilt, where the Royal ;falcons had previously been kept. , 8. Lowland Scotch for - errand-boy, from French : cadet, youngster. Cf. English _cad, of name derivation.-0. Mr. J. A. Hansom invented this' two-wheeled cab in 1.834.- 10. Captain Boycott, Lord lime's Irish Land Agent, was the victim in 1880 of the first notorious._tenants' compiracy.-11. English pronunciation and spelling of French': St. Denis.-12. Originally seamer, i.e., tailor, and so now pronounced and sometimes written. f. seamstress.-13. Originally bog-ward. C.f._ coward: c4zw*
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ward; Stewart : sty-ward,
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