Notes and Queries Vol. IV., No. 99, Saturday, September 20. 1851
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- Various
- Title
- Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 99, September 20, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- Credits
- Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- AG: General Works: Dictionaries and other general reference books
- Subject
- Questions and answers -- Periodicals
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- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38574
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38574
- Release Date
- January 15, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Vol. IV.—No. 99. NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.Notes. — VENERABLE BEDE'S MENTAL ALMANAC. — HYPHENISM, HYPHENIC, HYPHENIZATION. — GRAY AND COWLEY. — Minor Notes. — Ὑπωπιάζω. — Meaning of Whitsunday. — Anagrammatic Pun by William Oldys. — Ballad of Chevy Chase: Ovid. — Horace Walpole at Eton.
- 4.Queries. — CONTINENTAL WATCHMEN AND THEIR SONGS. — Minor Queries. — 151. Quotation from Bacon. — 152. Carmagnoles. — 153. The Use of Tobacco by the Elizabethan Ladies. — 154. Covines (Vol. iii., p. 477.). — 155. Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor. — 156. Plant in Texas. — 157. Discount. — 158. Sacre Cheveux. — 159. " Mad as a March Hare. " — 160. Vermin, Payments for Destruction of, and Ancient Names. — 161. Fire unknown. — 162. Matthew Paris's Historia Minor. — 163. Mother Bunche's Fairy Tales. — 164. Monumental Symbolism. — 165. Meaning of "Stickle" and "Dray." — 166. Son of the Morning. — — 167. Gild Book.
- 5.Replies. — POPE AND FLATMAN. (Vol. iv., p. 132.) — TEST OF STRENGTH OF A BOW. (Vol. iv., p. 56.) — BASKERVILLE THE PRINTER. (Vol. iv., pp. 40. 123.) — Replies to Minor Queries. — Mazer Wood and Sin-eaters (Vol. iii., pp. 239. 288.). — " A Posie of other Men's Flowers " (Vol. iv., pp. 58. 125.). — Table Book (Vol. i., p. 215.). — Briwingable (Vol. iv., p. 22.). — Simnels (Vol. iii., pp. 390. 506.). — A Ship's Berth (Vol. iv., p. 83.). — Suicides buried in Cross-roads (Vol. iv., p. 116.). — A Sword-blade Note (Vol. iv., p. 176.). — Domesday Book of Scotland (Vol. iv., p. 7.). — Dole-bank (Vol. iv., p. 162.). — The Letter "V" (Vol. iv., p. 164.). — Cardinal Wolsey (Vol. iv., p. 176.). — Nervous (Vol. iv., p. 7.). — Coleridge's Essays on Beauty (Vol. iv., p. 175.). — "Nao" or "Naw," a Ship (Vol. iv., p. 28.). — Unde derivatur Stonehenge (Vol. iv., p. 57.). — Nick Nack (Vol. iii., p. 179.). — Meaning of Carfax (Vol. iii., p. 508.). — Hand giving the Benediction (Vol. iii., p. 477.). — Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take an Oath (Vol. iv., p. 151.). — Borough-English (Vol. iv., p. 133.). — Date of a Charter (Vol. iv., p. 152.).
- 6.Miscellaneous. — NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. — BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. — Notices to Correspondents.
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