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come him by a silent glance , that speech of the eye which is rightly termed " looking daggers . " 4 " Of that which hore our valiant bumkin . " Bumkin is a significant word , signifying one who is Mnned or related to a boom , a tree , or rude , awkward stick , being a word derived from the Dutch . Johnson gives boomkin , and then , referring to bumkin ,
we have , with Dry den as an authority , " an awkward , heavy rustick . ' "We possess the word boom , as a naval term , being the long pole used to spread the clew of the studding-sail upon . And it is also a term in fortification , as the iron bar which is laid across the mouth of a harbour to prevent vessels from sailing in or out . " Who as we find in sullen writs . "
Here the word sullen evidently meant satirical . JNTow the meaning of the word has somewhat changed , as it simply answers to gloomy , intractable . . " For after solemn proclamation In the "bear ' s name , as is the fashion , According to the law of arms , To keep men from inglorious harms . "
It is well to notice how games played in real earnest have given their names ( often nothing more ) to pastimes of the present day . In bull-baiting , the steward , or , as we might call him , " the clerk of the course , " gave notice that all persons should not approach within forty feet of the bull , that no accidents might occur . ¦ " Bull ' s warning" is a game played by schoolboys in 1855 . The boy who acts as
bull , rushes , with hands clasped , after his companions , and whoever he can touch is obliged to go with the " bull" within the ring or boundary marked out . Then starting , the two boys with clasped hands run off in quest of others . This game we have never heard entitled " boy ' s warning , " which would be its appropriate name . The chase of " smugglers and cutters " at sea is a chase of real earnest . The game of " smugglers and cutters" is oftentimes enacted with great earnestness on the school play-ground . cl Mounted a pick-back on the old . "
Those who say , as we know some do , pig-a-back , " have certainly never read " Hudibras " carefully , and pronounce words possessed of no signification , however hard they may strive to trace the origin of this expression . A person who rides upon another man ' s shoulders rides pick-a-back ; that is , he is ficked up on his neighbour ' s back . To ride pick-a-back , may be to stand upon the shoulders of a person , with another above you , performing the feat practised at fairs and other places of public resort .
< c To fight like termagants and Turks . " The word termagant ( vol . i . p . 72 ) is said to be derived from the Saxon others think that it comes from the two Latin words " ter "
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come him by a silent glance , that speech of the eye which is rightly termed " looking daggers . " 4 " Of that which hore our valiant bumkin . " Bumkin is a significant word , signifying one who is Mnned or related to a boom , a tree , or rude , awkward stick , being a word derived from the Dutch . Johnson gives boomkin , and then , referring to bumkin ,
we have , with Dry den as an authority , " an awkward , heavy rustick . ' "We possess the word boom , as a naval term , being the long pole used to spread the clew of the studding-sail upon . And it is also a term in fortification , as the iron bar which is laid across the mouth of a harbour to prevent vessels from sailing in or out . " Who as we find in sullen writs . "
Here the word sullen evidently meant satirical . JNTow the meaning of the word has somewhat changed , as it simply answers to gloomy , intractable . . " For after solemn proclamation In the "bear ' s name , as is the fashion , According to the law of arms , To keep men from inglorious harms . "
It is well to notice how games played in real earnest have given their names ( often nothing more ) to pastimes of the present day . In bull-baiting , the steward , or , as we might call him , " the clerk of the course , " gave notice that all persons should not approach within forty feet of the bull , that no accidents might occur . ¦ " Bull ' s warning" is a game played by schoolboys in 1855 . The boy who acts as
bull , rushes , with hands clasped , after his companions , and whoever he can touch is obliged to go with the " bull" within the ring or boundary marked out . Then starting , the two boys with clasped hands run off in quest of others . This game we have never heard entitled " boy ' s warning , " which would be its appropriate name . The chase of " smugglers and cutters " at sea is a chase of real earnest . The game of " smugglers and cutters" is oftentimes enacted with great earnestness on the school play-ground . cl Mounted a pick-back on the old . "
Those who say , as we know some do , pig-a-back , " have certainly never read " Hudibras " carefully , and pronounce words possessed of no signification , however hard they may strive to trace the origin of this expression . A person who rides upon another man ' s shoulders rides pick-a-back ; that is , he is ficked up on his neighbour ' s back . To ride pick-a-back , may be to stand upon the shoulders of a person , with another above you , performing the feat practised at fairs and other places of public resort .
< c To fight like termagants and Turks . " The word termagant ( vol . i . p . 72 ) is said to be derived from the Saxon others think that it comes from the two Latin words " ter "