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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