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Rh gazed in wonder at targes and dorlachs or quivers of mane of goat or colt with hair on and hinging behind so as to be like a tail." The garment in question here was worn between doublet and short hose in the fashion of the seventeenth-century kilt. Fishermen wore such a garment loose till the end of the eighteenth century. The connection of bases with Fr. bas, a stocking, is disputed. Murray says, "Apparently an English application of Base, bottom, lowest part."

From Row's Appendix to Blair's "Autobiography," on the execution of Hackston of Rathillet (1680) for the murder of Archbishop Sharp—

Panse, to staunch a wound; Fr. panser. "The Council had a singular care of him, causing panse his wounds, &c., lest he should die before coming to the scaffold." Also in Montgomery's "The Cherry and the Slae" (1628).

From the "Inventory of Goods of Sir Peter Young" (1628), pedagogue to James I.—

Muntar, a watch; Fr. montre.

From Spalding's "Troubles," on Charles I.'s entry into Edinburgh, 1633

Calsey, causey; Fr. chaussée; Revel—"The calsey was revelled (fenced) frae the Nether Bow to the Stinking Style, with staiks of timber dung in the end." This seems to be an English form, from Lat. revellere, meaning to draw or keep back, as "Revelling the humours from their body.”—Harvey in "Imper. Dict."

Scoryettis, burgess; O.Fr. escorcher, to pluck off the skin, to burn the surface of anything; Eng. scorch. Scoryettis was some kind of cake or confection.

From the diary of Sir Th. Lauder, when studying in France (seventeenth century)—

Bitch-full—"Eleventh Nov., St. Martin's, a very merry day in France for Swiss and Alemands (l'Alemande), who drink like fishes. Find only three good feasts,—St. Martin's, les trois Rois" (of Cologne, I suppose), "and Mardi Gras. All drinkes bitch full theis dayes." Burns has this expression for extreme intoxication. Fuller form is bicker-fou, i.e. full as the beaker, to the