Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 by Various
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the kalendar of Saints.
D. ROCK. [U.J.B., if desirous of further particulars respecting St. John Nepomuc, may consult Mrs. Jameson's interesting _Legends of the Monastic Orders_, pp. 214. 217.--ED.] _Cavell, meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 473.).--I concur entirely with the etymology of the word _cavell_ given at p. 473. A lake having been drained in my country, the land is still divided into _Kavelingen_; as lots of land were formerly measured by strings of cord, _kavel_, _kabel_, _cable_. Vide Tuinman _Trakkel_, d. n. t. p. 165. _Kavelloten_ is to receive a cavell by _lot._ cf. _Idem, Verrolg_, p. 97. JANUS DOUSA. _Lord Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico._--Has Lord Kingsborough's splendid work on Mexican hieroglyphics ever been completed or not? J.A. GILES. [This magnificent work has been recently completed by the publication of the eighth volume, which may, we believe, be procured from Mr. Henry Bohn.--ED.] |
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