A snarling, biting, troublesome s word dog or some equivalent being u koer (kure, koir); q. e. a place to sentry-box; and thus a place for a of any kind; and a cur-dog, is as t a box [house] as a guard [sentinel]. is a sentinel in the watch-tower, a lo word had no derogatory import in its for the watch-dog was annoying to robber. In course of use it has co dog which snarls at every thing tha and thus a troublesome animal, inste one. Our verb to cower in the sens the threatening danger, to lie in con fear belongs to this stock.. A HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPI As a fortunate escape; an unaccou a marvellous preservation. Er eer (kepe); q. e. there was in this ca safety providentially prepared for implying, that which preserved the p tion was an act of providence; a go beforehand, sooner. Bereid, read arranged. Keep, kepe (safeguard) kappen, to cut in, to make an inlet, an word of kepen, to hold, to retain, to kee same stock with our to keep and the cepi. The keep of a castle is the st the castle, a last resort for its defenders aspirated, sounds hair, and has misled regard to this phrase. CHAUCER fre the word kepe for caution, heed, preser "Those sely clerkis rennin up and doune Take heed there, take care there. A GODSEND. Providential piece of good luck, some unexpected good fortune. Er God seijnt; q. e. in this case God has bestowed the blessing; what has happened [been acquired] is due to the favour of God. Seijnen, seghenen, to bless, to bestow a blessing. HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY. A confused state of things; an uncommon uproar. Hij gilld je, pigg gilld je; q. e. he kept screaming, the pig kept squeaking. Gillen, to yell, to cry out when applied to man; when applied to the hog, to grunt, to squeak like a pig. Je, continually, unceasingly. So that the amount of the phrase is discordant noise, confusion of tunes, jarring elements, clashing sounds; and in course of use, a state of confusion indefinitely. Vigghe, bigghe, bigge, pigghe, big, pig, are the same word. The expression is evidently burlesque in both forms. THE POPE'S EYE. A well-known spot in a leg of mutton, and in re quest amoug the gourmands of a half century back. De paepes eye; q. e. the parson's egg. The egg was always the type of a good thing, as being pure meat, and in small compass. The phrase is not grounded in any presumed propensity of the clergyman to the dainties of the table, but in the regard of his neighbours towards him; and implies no more than an habitual and social compliment to his character. Paepe, as priest, is the same word with the Russian term Pope, in the sense of priest and q.e. keep as you are, hold yourself so [as you are] and I have no doubt the source of, or else same expression with, our modern You Sir! in the sense of stop, stay till I come to you and tell you what I have to say. Not a very civil form of speech indeed, but a common one, when people dont expect to be knocked down for using it. Mr. Urry is wrong when he interprets jossa as turn. with Pope the head of the Romish church, by some older writers spelt Puppe. "Not only to my kinge of pece I write, And maintaine lawe and so the pece shall stande." THE JACK KETCH. As the executioner for the town [place]. Die j'hach ketst; q. e. he that continues for ever hunting after chance; he whom industry itself cannot avail; one who, however anxious and zealous in his calling, does not thrive the more by it; for nobody will be his customer who can help it. And thus one who follows a pursuit of all others the most everlasting, depending upon accident. His very customers shun him as long as they can. He has no friend to rely on, but singly chance, to which he must look up to the end of his career. Die, he who, one who. J', je, ever, continually. Hach, chance, happening, accident, hazard. Ketsen, to hunt up, to pursue unremittingly, to seek after, to catch at, to follow. Je hach, j'hach sounds Jack, ch as k. And Jaek ketch is not merely from necessity an ardent and active wooer of chance, but one who by all the exertion he can make is not the forwarder, which is not necessarily the case in any other profession [line of life]. JOHNSON offers no explanation of the term, but merely says he is the common hangman of London; implying, erroneously, the title belongs only to the London executioner. Jack is the travesty of the sound of j'hach in some other of *Before, ere. + Pope, and rightful puppe means he who is entitled to be the representative of an Apostle of Peace, from his conduct our popular terms, as will be shown. Jack as John seems to be the French Jacque, as in the christian name Jean-Jacque. "Lorde! trowe ye that a covetous wretche As love in o poinct in some plite ?"-CHAUCER. TO BAMBOOZLE. To make a fool of a person, to impose upon him, to benoodle him. Beaenbeoliezelen; q. e. to grease over with holy oil; to anoint with consecrated oil; to housel. Oliezel, holy oil, extreme unction, chrism; whence our verb to housel, in the sense of, to anoint with such oil according to Romish rite. To ben houseled, in the days of popish practices, was to have received extreme unction. Oliezelen, beoliezelen, aenbeoliezelen, beaenbeoliezelen, to housel according to form; and, in the heretic's dialect, to bamboozle, to humbug, to impose upon, to make a fool of. Johnson, in utter ignorance of any origin for the word, pronounces it a low term. HE SHOT A CAT. A well known jocular phrase for he vomited. Hie schie hotte er kaet; q. e. a lot of filth was soon put together here on the spot; it was not long before a collection of nastiness was produced to view; we soon had the contents of his stomach before us. Schie, schielick, in an instant, at once, in the twinkling of an eye. Hotten, to collect in a mass, to turn into [out of, up], to congeal, to coagulate, to curdle, to run into curd, and is here as to bring up, to fetch up. Kaet, keet, quaet, quaed, kat, filth, and also that which harms. Er, there, on the spot. BLACKGUARD. A disgrace to his kind; a bad sample of his species. Blackgeaerd; q. e. devoid nature; one whose conduct bespeak of that light which nature bestows for the path of life. The light, here inte tion; inborn faculty distinctive of m perception. So that the amount of t bad exception in the kind to which else who acts as if he was such. B the ground sense of the word, viz. utterly dark, unenlightened, and con and blind; and so, indifferent in regard rounds, self being the only object.A defective [baser] nature, and destined ingly to do such things as gentle natur tended for, but which are as necessa good in the general view of the syster seen by us. Bleak, blind, blink belon source; but of this elsewhere. Ge (natured, endowed by nature, natura the past participle of aerden, to have JOHNSON Compounds the term of bl blake] and guard, and defines it a But what have either of these words to or with fellow? The term has neith cleanliness nor to station in life: but to the emperor and to the chimney either may fall within the predicament him to the appellation. The character guard is summed up by Chaucer in cuckoo. "Tho gan the cuckow put him forthe in pre + Say, speec |