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This is an interesting word , " moldwarp " being the name given to that active little animal which warps and cracks the . mould , to the great annoyance of farmers and other country gentlemen . Much more significant is this than mole , which one ^ would have derived from " mollis , " descriptive of the soft and silky coat of that engineer whose life is spent in making tunnels .
" With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits . " Bavin" here means low , good for nothing . Bavin is still a word used in Hampshire for faggots made of brushwood . Shortly after
this we have " as lief hear , " namely , " as soon hear . " This Saxon word is used by the poor , both in London and the country . It is used also in America , and many think it to be an Americanism . The new country is of too modern date , however , to produce many old words .
of Selborne : "— " We have the best evidence to prove that both fish and molluscous animals may be frozen without destroying their vitality . " A gentleman at Oamberwell had an inflamed eye during the winter of 1829 , and kept a leech which was applied to the temple several times . It was put into water , in a vial , placed near the fireplace of the parlour . The cold at that time was very severe , and
_ « it had froze them up As fish are ma pond . " - —( Act i . sc . 1 , second part . ) Here there are no verbal difficulties , but we are induced to give this as one of the very many instances which prove Shakspeare , the poet and dramatist , to have been no ordinary naturalist . On this point Mr . Jesse writes thus , in a note in White ' s " Natural History
every night the leech was frozen , and thawed the following day . It was observed by Captain Franklin , that during the severe weather he experienced near the Coppermine River , the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets . In a short time they became a solid mass of ice , and by a blow or two of the hatchet they were easily split open . If , however ^ in the completely frozen state , they were thawed before the fire , they recovered their animation .
Fang . — " An I but fist him once ; an a' come but within my mce . ( Act ii . sc . 1 . ) Here the word " vice " implies a firm iron grasp , from which that simple piece of machinery in the carpenter ' s workshop has gained its
name . Sins in the same way are termed " vices , " because they cling close to us , as did the pilgrim , the representative of Physical Death , cling to Sintram in Fouquet ' s beautiful and mysterious " Sintram and his Companions . "
Poins . — " Delivered with good respect . And how doth the marttemass , your master ? " —( Act ii . sc . 3 . ) The fourth of July and the eleventh of November are days dedicated to St . Martin , Bishop of Tours . Upon the former day is commemorated the translation of his body to a more splendid tomb , and the second is his feast or festival , which is here called " Martle-
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This is an interesting word , " moldwarp " being the name given to that active little animal which warps and cracks the . mould , to the great annoyance of farmers and other country gentlemen . Much more significant is this than mole , which one ^ would have derived from " mollis , " descriptive of the soft and silky coat of that engineer whose life is spent in making tunnels .
" With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits . " Bavin" here means low , good for nothing . Bavin is still a word used in Hampshire for faggots made of brushwood . Shortly after
this we have " as lief hear , " namely , " as soon hear . " This Saxon word is used by the poor , both in London and the country . It is used also in America , and many think it to be an Americanism . The new country is of too modern date , however , to produce many old words .
of Selborne : "— " We have the best evidence to prove that both fish and molluscous animals may be frozen without destroying their vitality . " A gentleman at Oamberwell had an inflamed eye during the winter of 1829 , and kept a leech which was applied to the temple several times . It was put into water , in a vial , placed near the fireplace of the parlour . The cold at that time was very severe , and
_ « it had froze them up As fish are ma pond . " - —( Act i . sc . 1 , second part . ) Here there are no verbal difficulties , but we are induced to give this as one of the very many instances which prove Shakspeare , the poet and dramatist , to have been no ordinary naturalist . On this point Mr . Jesse writes thus , in a note in White ' s " Natural History
every night the leech was frozen , and thawed the following day . It was observed by Captain Franklin , that during the severe weather he experienced near the Coppermine River , the fish froze as they were taken out of the nets . In a short time they became a solid mass of ice , and by a blow or two of the hatchet they were easily split open . If , however ^ in the completely frozen state , they were thawed before the fire , they recovered their animation .
Fang . — " An I but fist him once ; an a' come but within my mce . ( Act ii . sc . 1 . ) Here the word " vice " implies a firm iron grasp , from which that simple piece of machinery in the carpenter ' s workshop has gained its
name . Sins in the same way are termed " vices , " because they cling close to us , as did the pilgrim , the representative of Physical Death , cling to Sintram in Fouquet ' s beautiful and mysterious " Sintram and his Companions . "
Poins . — " Delivered with good respect . And how doth the marttemass , your master ? " —( Act ii . sc . 3 . ) The fourth of July and the eleventh of November are days dedicated to St . Martin , Bishop of Tours . Upon the former day is commemorated the translation of his body to a more splendid tomb , and the second is his feast or festival , which is here called " Martle-