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Page 139
... word dicker - half a score , the customary count in dealing with certain articles , especially hides or skins , This word is found in Domesday Book . Its early use is attributed to the tribute which the Germans had to pay to the Romans ...
... word dicker - half a score , the customary count in dealing with certain articles , especially hides or skins , This word is found in Domesday Book . Its early use is attributed to the tribute which the Germans had to pay to the Romans ...
Page 250
... word henchman was , and what its meaning at the time of its intro- duction from abroad into England , a question which PROF . SKEAT has long since severely left alone . Because the word subsequently came to be used of a page of rank who ...
... word henchman was , and what its meaning at the time of its intro- duction from abroad into England , a question which PROF . SKEAT has long since severely left alone . Because the word subsequently came to be used of a page of rank who ...
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... word meaning " council , " that must have been pronounced almost exactly as we pronounce the word caucus , which we use in a very similar sense . The word is traced back and first found in print in precisely such a neighbourhood as we ...
... word meaning " council , " that must have been pronounced almost exactly as we pronounce the word caucus , which we use in a very similar sense . The word is traced back and first found in print in precisely such a neighbourhood as we ...
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