"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
VOL. IV.—No. 99.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 1851.
Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d.
Saxon characters have been marked in braces as in {Eafel}.
NOTES:—
Venerable Bede's Mental Arithmetic 201
Hyphenism, Hyphenic, Hyphenization 203
Gray and Cowley 204
Minor Notes:—Ὑπωπιάζω—Meaning of Whitsunday—Anagrammatic Pun by William Oldys—Ballad of Chevy Chase: Ovid—Horace Walpole at Eton 205
QUERIES:—
Continental Watchmen and their Songs 206
Minor Queries:—Quotation from Bacon—Carmagnoles—The Use of Tobacco by the Elizabethan Ladies—Covines—Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor—Plant in Texas—Discount—Sacre Cheveux—"Mad as a March Hare"—Payments for Destruction of Vermin—Fire unknown—Matthew Paris's Historia Minor—Mother Bunche's Fairy Tales—Monumental Symbolism—Meaning of "Stickle" and "Dray"—Son of the Morning—Gild Book 208
REPLIES:—
Pope and Flatman 209
Test of the Strength of a Bow 210
Baskerville the Printer 211
Replies to Minor Queries:—Mazer Wood and Sin-eaters—"A Posie of other Men's Flowers"—Table Book—Briwingable—Simnels—A Ship's Berth—Suicides buried in Cross-roads—A Sword-blade Note—Domesday Book of Scotland—Dole-bank—The Letter "V"—Cardinal Wolsey—Nervous—Coleridge's Essays on Beauty—"Nao" or "Naw," a Ship—Unde derivatur Stonehenge—Nick Nack—Meaning of Carfax—Hand giving the Benediction—Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take an Oath—Borough-English—Date of a Charter 211
MISCELLANEOUS:—
Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 215
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