Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850 by Various
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The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan. 133
Minor Queries:--Plurima Gemma--Emmote de Hastings--Boozy Grass--Gradely--Hats worn by Females--Queries respecting Feltham's Works--Eikon Basilice--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest"--Carpets and Room-paper--Cotton of Finchley--Wood Carving in Snow Hill--Walrond Family--Translations--Bonny Dundee--Graham of Claverhouse--Franz von Sickingen--Blackguard--Meaning of "Pension"--Stars and Stripes of the American Arms--Passages from Shakspeare--Nursery Rhyme--"George" worn by Charles I.--Family of Manning of Norfolk--Salingen a Sword Cutler--Billingsgate--"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke"--Genealogical Queries--Parson, the Staffordshire Giant--Unicorn in the Royal Arms--The Frog and the Crow of Ennow--"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c. 133 REPLIES:-- A treatise on Equivocation. 136 Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News." 137 "News," "Noise," and "Parliament." 138 Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr. Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell. 139 Replies to Minor Queries:--Execution of Charles I.--Sir T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.--Simon of Ghent--Chevalier de Cailly--Collar of Esses--Hell paved with good Intentions--The Plant "Hæmony"--Practice of Scalping among the Scythians--Scandinavian Mythology--Cromwell's Estates--Magor--"Incidis in Scyllam"--Dies Iræ--Fabulous Account |
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