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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 MIL JAN. 8, 1917.

Attracting, iii. 54 .... ; your innocence, and good 'humour are most attracting, (The D. takes it from 1661, 1753, and 1790.)

Band of music, ii. 98 . . . ., Zoriada consented to be of the party, and a band of music accompanied -them. (In D. 1766 only.)

Banditti, i. 63, or to join hands with a ban-

ditti of which he was a member. (D. in this sense 1706, 1799, 1826 only.)

Beams (Latter), i. 63. My heart revolted at the

idea of life upon the latter beams ;

Beflounce, ii. 89 .... ; her apron was beflounced ; (InD. 1884 only.)

Be-wild, i. 21. I ran like be-wild to ax her a few

questions, (It may be a misprint for " bewildered," which Toldervy uses in ' The Orphans,' i. 10. Or is it for " be-willed " ?)

Black Hole, i. 112. . . ., this must be the black hole at Calcutta ; the savages, they never once attempted to put her there. iii. 159 . . . . ; but, whether she had perished in the 'black hole, or fled with her husband,. .. .was unknown ; (Not in D. between 1816 and 1758. See N. & Q.,' 12 S. i. 108, 175, 379.)

Blind side, iii. 3 .... ; for he did so veigle, and so get on the blind side of me, (D. not 1884-1711.)

Blouzed, iii. 143. . . ., when Martha, all blouzed and blown about, (D. not 1847-1766.)

Blow up, i. 141. . . ., and make a merit of blowing up his designs with his friends at the village. (D. not [III. 27] after 1742 in this sense.) ' Cf. i. 150. .. .take care to lay your train with such judgment, as not to leave it in the power of either wisdom or accident to blow it up.

Blowed, ii. 89. . . .; her hair was blowed about her ears,

Box away, iii. 3 . . . . ; whereas the good people of low degree can box away their anger. (D. has ' " box it out.")

Brace, ii. 45 . . . ., with a pendant flying at our stern, and a brace of horns. (D. has not this combination.)

Break hands, i. 147...., and broke hands for

ever with a brother he loved, to live in retirement . . . (Not D. Mr. J. L. Glenn, a Rhodes Scholar of Exeter College, tells me that this expression sur-

-vives in South Carolina, and, he believes, in the adjoining States of North America. I have heard that it was known lately in South Australia.)

Busy, iii. 57 .... ; and here are holes and caverns enough to busy them both. (D. not fully . in this sense of " distract.")

Calash, ii. 159. . . ., and catching up a calash, which happened to be by her on the sopha, (D. gives specimens from 1774 and 1791.)

Cast of features, iii. 51. .., but her features

had so serious a cast, iii, 79. The captain returned

to dinner, but with a cast of features, Mrs. Quin-

brook was a stranger to. iii. 139 would

^.rnuse himself,. . ., with discovering from their .cast of features, and turn of expression, (D. gives " cast of feature," 1816.)

Cavee, i. 19. . . . ; I would have put in a cavee .here, (for caveat.)

Cherub, i. 43. . . ., and providence having "blessed us with two cherubs, a son and a daughter. (D. not 1814-1705.)

Circulating library, ii. 92 . . . ., and read very many equally entertaining and instructive novels, which she obtained from a circulating library, in the town of Plymouth, (D. quotes it from 1775* and .1783 only.)

Clap, ii. 121. Mrs. Withers was for clapping him in her arms. (D. not after 1450.) Cf. ii. 10 . . . . ; for though he could have clapped his cloven foot behind, and passed himself off upon the lady,

Concerts, ii. 36 .... ; she told his lordship there would be a chasm in their village parties, and that they should greatly miss him in their concerts ; (Not D. 1855-1768.')

Confine, iii. 66. I will, replied Zoriada, write to him, and confine him for the security of our mutual happiness to comply with my reque_st, (Not D. after 1742 in this sense of " compel, bind.")

Conjuration, i. 15. ... ; but when I think how like conjuration it is, to have no one clue to the who she is, i. 118...., and lodge the whole conjuration, as she called it, before Mr. Crosby. i. 130. . . . ; with your plots and your conjura- tions, and your creepings, and your whisperings, iii. 36.... of some great castle, full of unhappy women, drawn into your snares like the conjura- tions of former days, and, moreover, I do believe you are something of a conjuror, and bewitched us all. (In the first and the last instances it seems to be an ignorant person's way of saying " conjurings." It occurs on p. 213 of vol. 2 of ' The Life and Adventures of Sir Bartholomew Sapskull' (London: 1768.) The D. does not exemplify it adequately from the eighteenth century.)

Consuming, ii. 57 . . . ., that I read the service of the church over the consuming pile,

Correspondent, iii. 77. .. .between two amiable, intelligent, and correspondent minds, (D. not 1798-1678 of p. 2 of vol. 2 of the said ' Sapskull.')

Counterplot, ii. 72 . . . ., to endeavour to counter- plot them, (D. not 1887-1711.)

Creepings, i. 130. . . . ; with your plots and your conjurations, and your creepings, and your whisperings, open and above board is the con- duct for my money, (Cf. T. iii. 83. " This brought a watchman ; but Copper, being more than a match for a couple of these sort of guard -men, he soon bestowed on this what Humphry called his creepings." (The D. does not give it between 1840 and 1736.)

Declaredly, ii. 105...., and he declaredly dreaded the period of their separation, ii. 155. ._. . a contest that had revenge declaredly for its motive. (Not D. 1844-1748.)

Definish, i. 81. . . ., to be able to definish their propensities ; (The D. calls it " obsolete, rare '' ; and brings it only from Chaucer, whom T. quotes, iii. 159, 184 ; iv. 208.)

Depository, i. 56. . . ., the hermitage, the hallowed depository of the dead; ii. 49...., we are now within sight of the depository of our wealth, (D. not 1840-1750. On the bookshop at 116 High Street, Oxford, there is this superscription : " Clarendon Press Depository." In vol. iii. 139 we find, " that this repository of the dead might have been set to Gray's pencil.")

Diamond (Rough), iii. 139.... there was not a good or a great character in existence, that he could not point out in the rough diamond around his demesne; (Not D. 1890-1700. Here it is used collectively.)

Dinner patron, i. 132. . ., and the nephew of this Dinner patron of his, happening to come into the county for a few weeks at this period, (Where can we find another example of this term ?)

Dire, iii. 127. The first use, said Zoriada, I will make of the dire riches I am mistress of, shall be to recompence my worthy friends. ..