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NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. SEPT. is, 1915.

Gild, v. (in this use, 1588, &c.). " To purge the ayr, and gylt the tender grene." xii. Prologue,

P ' Go' above, to excel. " [They shall] go abufe baith men and Goddis expres " (Lat., Supra homines, &c.). xii. 157.

Goat's icool, to go for (1588). "Sum glastens, and thai gang at all for gayt \voll." viii. Prologue, p. 143. (The proverbial lana caprina.)

Grain, a prong." [Neptune's sceptre,] haifand granys thre." i. 30.

Graze, v. trans. (1667). "Four hcrsis

Gnyppand gersis the large feildis on raw " (Lat., Toridentes campum late. Ed. 1553, Greissis).

'Gunpowder. The interpolation of this into Virgil is curious.

Syne to thair werk, in maner of gun pouder, [The Cyclopes] mydlit and thai mixt this feirful

souder. viii. 181.

Gust, v., to smell. " The strang gustand cedyr is all to schyde " (Lat., Olentem scindere cedrum).

Haitrent, hatred (1375, &c.). " Gif thow has nocht all Troianis at haitrent " (Lat., Si nondum xosus ad unum Trojanos. Ed. 1553, at hatrent). v. 265.

Happen to be. " Or in the cetie of Myce happynit to be." v. 226.

Hardis, sb. plural (what is this?). "The kendyllyt lynt and hardis burnand schyr {bright]." viii. 201..

Hatches, rowers' seats. " Sit doun on hechis (Lat., Considere transtris). iii. 136. See also Orlop.

Have done. ,,

1. " Haue done, cum on, this is our lattir day.

2. " Haue done, fadir, quod I." ii. 100. Hazard, adj. (what is this ?). " Mezentius, mok,

and at this hazard hed " (Lat., Huic capiti insultans). viii. 191.

He and he, this man and that.

1. "He and he Inforcis of to schowin the schip to saif." v. 236.

2. " Followand thar chyftane, he and he. -

3. " Nother party wyst, nother he nor he, To salf hym self." x. 339.

Head, of a spear (14 c., then c. 1533). VVith a scharp castyn heid " (Lat., Conjecta cuspide). xii 120.

Head-band (1535). " Lous heid bandis, shaik doun zour hayris al." vii. 109.

Head-lace, a head-band or fillet." Sum tyme her heid lays for to knyt hir hayr." vii. 106.

Headstrong (1398, then 1530)." [He] by hys hedstrang hors a fall had caucht " (Lat., Infraems equi lapsu). x. 338. tc

Heart-pipes, the diaphragm or midriff. Hys hart pipis the scharp hed persyt in tua (Lat., Transit praecordia). ix. 240.

Hedy, adj. (what is this ?). " He had been evineld with thee, and hedy peir " (Lat., Et mine sequali tecum pubesceret aevo). iii. 149.

Heugh, sb., a cavern (1300, &c.). " Vndir a hingand hewch, in a derne vent " (Lat., In secessu lo'igo sub rupe cavata). ii. 133.

Hey ho (1471, &c.). " ? Thair feris exhorting, with mony heis and how." iii. 126.

Hide, a man's skin (1000-1460, then 1536, &c.). " Persani the hyde [it] mayd a litill wound. xii. 121.

High, in, at once, precipitately. " Flee from this auarus kingis cost in hy." ii. 120.

Ho-it, adj. (editor says " ordered, suitable "). Apon his feit his meyit schois hoit War buklit on the gys of Tuscany.

viii. 183.

(Lat., Et Tyrrhena pedum circumdat vincula plantis. Ed. 1553, mete schois hote.)

Hold room (nautical). " [Cleopatra in flight] Scaland schetis, and haldand rowme at large " (Lat., Vela dare, et laxos jam jamque immittere funes). viii. 202.

Hover, v., to hesitate (1440, 1475, then 157;',, &c.). " He hovirris all abasit for dreid " (Lat., Cunctaturque metu). xii. 163.

How, adj., hollow. " The how cavern of his wo[u]nd " (Lat., Specus atri vulneris). ix. 261. Hull (of a ship, 1571) :

Sum deil slaw wes sche,

For that hir holl wes of a hevy tree.

v. 232.

The hull is sometimes the hold, but not so here. Hunting-rail, a hunting-net. " Amyd the hunting ralis and the nettis." x. 335.

Huntress (14 and 15 c., then 1590)." Ida hys moder, ane huntrice." ix. 223.

RICHABD H. THORNTON. 8, Mornington Crescent, X.W.

(To be. continued.)

AN AMERICAN ORACLE OF 1803.

IN August or September, 1803, a farmer named Joseph Hoag saw a vision of American history for more than a century ahead. It was in the open fields in daylight, at Char- lotte, Vermont. Hoag was a Quaker minister, and the vision is well known in the Society of Friends. This Society, however, was chary of publishing it, partly because it has always been conservative in such matters, and partly because the oraclo predicted the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

For many years I despaired of finding any copy of an account of the vision, printed or manuscript, earlier than 1861, when one appeared at Glasgow (The British Friend, Sixth Month, 1st) and at Auburn, N.Y., in the official edition of Hoag's Journal. Sceptics were wont to say that the whole thing had taken shape after the war. This doubt is now for ever laid to rest. A complete printed text was found by m3 in July, dated 1854. It appeared in The Friends Intelli- gencer for Twelfth Month, 2, 1854, and has just been reprinted by the editor. Most significant is the fact that this text was " copied by request from Frederick Douglas's Paper." This was the famous runaway slave, whose paper, called at first The North 1 Star, appeared at Rochester, N.Y., from