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 Notes on the New English Dictionary 577 estang, checune en sa nature, pus tot le Frauncoys des bestes et des oyseus, checune assembe par sa naturele aprise; pus tot le Fraunsoys de boys, pree, pasture, vergeyer, gardyn, curtilage, ouveke tot le Fraunsoys de flures et des frus ke il i sount. E tut issi troveret-vus tot le ordre en parler e respoundre ke checun gentyshomme covent saver; dount touzdis troverez-vus primes le Fraunsoys et pus le Engleys suaunt; e ke les enfauns pussunt saver les propretez des choses ke veyunt et kaunt dewunt dire moun et ma, soun et sa, le et la, moy et jo. (At the end of the treatise in MS. Sloane): Ici finist la Doctrine monsire GAUTER DE BYBLESWORDE. OE. *myllan modern (obs.) English mulle. The first edition of Hall's Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary contains on page 33 2a the following: "Apdmyldan wv. to come to light, appear, HGL. 463." In the second edition this is changed to "updmjlan? to come to light, appear; HGL. 463 (v. OEG 4784)." While Hall thus recognizes the existence of an Old English double compound up-d-mylan, the Supplement to B.-T. is not even ready to believe in the simple compound. For on page 36b sub d-mylp the reader is referred to d-ltman, and sub d-liman we find the following: "I. to come forth bril- liantly: Up airman emersisse (the passage is: Illaesa venus- tate virgines e thermis emersisse leguntur Aid. 68, 9). Hpt. Gl. 516, 52. (In An. Ox. 4784 the form is dtymdan. In two other glosses emergere is rendered by amylan (?d-lyman): Up amtyde emergeret (Si Homerus ab inferis emergere t Aid. 33, 30), An. Ox. 2427. Up am$lp emergat, Wrt. Voc. II. 143, 27). II. To bring forth, shew forth: Dcegrima rynas up dl$mp aurora cursus provehit.v. liman." That is to say, although the Supple- ment adds another instance 1 to the already brought forward one by Hall for his up-d-mylan, it does not consider the authenticity of the word sufficiently established to give it a recognized place in the dictionary. I think Hall is to be recommended for his different attitude; for the idea cannot be entertained that mere scribal error is at the root of glossing emergeret by up amylde and emergat by up amylp. That there is an actual basis for such glossing is quite evident; the only doubt to be solved is whether 1 It is from the Harl, MS 3376, printed in WW. 227 44-45 thus: Emergat, i. exsurgit, eleuat, exit, uenit, up amyty.