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Playful Poems by Unknown
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{148c} Ingle, fire. Gaelic, aingeal, allied to Latin ignis.

{95b} Keep, "take thou no keep"--heed, "never mind."
{148f} Kirkton, familiar term for the village in which the country
people had their church.

{94k} Ladysmock, Cardamine pratensis.
{93b} Leir, lore, doctrine.
{94g} Learned his sheep, taught his sheep.
{94a} Lemster, Leominster.
{95a} Lingell, a shoemaker's thong. Latin lingula.
{151h} Linkit, tripped, moved briskly.
{108c} Lubrican, the Irish leprechaun, a fairy in shape of an old
man, discovered by the moan he makes. He brings wealth, and is
fixed only as long as the finder keeps his eye upon him.

{108b} Mandrake, the root of mandragora, rudely shaped like the
forked animal man, and said to groan or shriek when pulled out of
the earth.
{93c} Marchpine, sweet biscuit of sugar and almonds. Marchpane
paste was used by comfit-makers for shaping into letters, true-love
knots, birds, beasts, etc.
{130} Megrim, pain on one side of the head, headache. French
migraine, from Gr. eemikrania.
{147i} Melder, milling. The quantity of meal ground at once.
{148a} Mirk, dark.
{108a} Molewarp, mole. First English, moldwearp.

{148e} Nappy, nap, strong beer.

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