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Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… thou no savour." Chaucer, Minor Poems, 'Fortune,' 382 (ed. Skeat). There had been a similar "horlynge betwene the …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… fyne Upon a tissu of satyne." 'Romaunt of the Rose' (ed. Skeat), ll. 1085, 1094-5. See also Prof. Skeat's note on "mordaunt," ibid., pp. 425-6. The bars were …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… with that of an undertaker at the present day. See Skeat's Glossary to 'Piers the Plow man,' p. 456. Canopies or …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… cutter out of garments, being the feminine of shaper (Skeat). See Notes and Queries, 30 Jan., 1886. Cf. Katherine …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… emanated originally from Luxemburg Piers Plowman (ed. Skeat, 1886, vol. 1 pp. 458, 459) thus compares certain …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… term hora nona came to be applied afterwards to midday (Skeat, 'Etymol. Dict.,' s. v. 'Noon'). …
Calendar of letter-books of the city of London
… of the present day, although, in the opinion of Prof. Skeat, "the etymology of scavenger from the A. -S. sceawian …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum
… John Sinclair, John, Lord Sinclair Sittingborne, Kent Skeat, John Skelton, Thos. Skinner, Ant. Capt. Skippon, …
A Survey of London
… Graces, &c. boorde, began the, i. 36. Cf. Chaucer, ed. Skeat, vol. v, Notes to C. T., The Knight, p. 6, 'had been … Milton P.L.x. 415: so in Berners's trans. of Froissart (Skeat). ceiled, provided with a ceiling, i. 145, 318. … drink (Judges xiii. 7), not necessarily from apples' (Skeat). cistern, v.a., i. 17; cistern (sestern), subs., i. …