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Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...are derived from mingere (Latin), but rather from the AngloSaxon, which had three cognate verbs for mix: Micsan, to mix dung; micgan, to mix muck; mengan, to mix anything. Hereward laughed bitterly. I suppose one will murder the other next, in order to make himself the stronger by being the sole rival to the tanner. The midden cock sole rival to the eagle! Boy Waltheof will set up his claim next, I presume, as Siward''s son; and then Gospatric, as Ethelred Evil-Counsel''s great-grandson: and so forth, and so forth, till they all eat each other up, and the tanner''s grandson eats the last.--Hereward, c. xvii. The Danes term the oyster-heaps left by the Aborigines (prior to the Scandinavians), kjokkenmoddings. The Saxons and the Romans borrowed from the primary: Mseso-Gothic. As a last quotation, which will show that mix and mixen are akin, I take a passage from Paynel''s Regiment of Helth. The operation of the stomake is to make a good myxyon of things there in, and to digeste them well,--of course, like compost. (101.) Saim is lard or hog''s dripping; in Welsh it is seim. In the East Riding you may hear of a blether o''saim, that is, a bladder of lard. A joke is: A woman in Hull sold butter, and it was saim in the middle. What a shame, you will say: but it was same in the middle, of course. (102.) Brades O'' Me means like me; perhaps it is formed from such a breed as me. (103.) Brim, applied to the wind, means bleak, keen. Eft when ye count you freed from fear Comes the breme winter with chamfred brows.--Spenser''s Shep. Cat., Feb. And in a Saxon MS. (Harl. Coll.), quoted by Warton, who dates the ballad 1200, it occurs:--With lokks lefiche and long, With front and face feir to fonde With murthes monie mote her monge, ...
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