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... DICTIONARY . ' Clarendon Press , Oxford . JOHN EDWARDS : PENLEIGH HOUSE . - I shall be much obliged if any one can give me in- formation about John Edwards , of Westbury , in the county of Wilts . He derived his pedigree from Sir James ...
... DICTIONARY . ' Clarendon Press , Oxford . JOHN EDWARDS : PENLEIGH HOUSE . - I shall be much obliged if any one can give me in- formation about John Edwards , of Westbury , in the county of Wilts . He derived his pedigree from Sir James ...
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... Dictionary of Slang , Jargon , and Cant ' of Barrère and Leland . This is scarcely the meaning of the term so freely used to - day . " Buck up means no more than " cheer up " ; hence " doing a buck , " . e . , making a great effort ...
... Dictionary of Slang , Jargon , and Cant ' of Barrère and Leland . This is scarcely the meaning of the term so freely used to - day . " Buck up means no more than " cheer up " ; hence " doing a buck , " . e . , making a great effort ...
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... Dictionary of National Biography . Edited by Sidney Lee . Vol . LI . ( Smith , Elder & Co. ) THE fifty - first volume of the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' stands conspicuous and pre - eminent in en- shrining the life of William ...
... Dictionary of National Biography . Edited by Sidney Lee . Vol . LI . ( Smith , Elder & Co. ) THE fifty - first volume of the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' stands conspicuous and pre - eminent in en- shrining the life of William ...
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... dictionary . In a will , dated 1597 , I find a very rich man leaving a friend " a cloake , a dublet , and a pair of Venetians . " I presume the last- named means some sort of trousers , but can find it in no dictionary . I shall feel ...
... dictionary . In a will , dated 1597 , I find a very rich man leaving a friend " a cloake , a dublet , and a pair of Venetians . " I presume the last- named means some sort of trousers , but can find it in no dictionary . I shall feel ...
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... Dictionary ' and Blunt's ' Annotated Book of Common Prayer , ' p . 111 . ERNEST B. SAVAGE . St. Thomas's , Douglas ... dictionaries of both Halliwell and Wright as a Somersetshire word meaning a bludgeon . Perhaps the glossary mentioned ...
... Dictionary ' and Blunt's ' Annotated Book of Common Prayer , ' p . 111 . ERNEST B. SAVAGE . St. Thomas's , Douglas ... dictionaries of both Halliwell and Wright as a Somersetshire word meaning a bludgeon . Perhaps the glossary mentioned ...
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