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GENERAL INDEX.
167. Punch and Judy, xi. 371. Punt in foot-
ball, xi. 187. Purfly, Carlyle's use of the word,
xi. 248. " Purple patch," i. 447. Purpose,
alleged name of a dance, xii. 27. Pyrrhic
victory, xii. 87. St. Bridget's Bower, i. 27.
Taciturn : Grieve in Smollett, xii. 327. Tackle-
house: tackle-porter, xii. 307. Taglioni = great-
coat, xii. 366. Tailed, word in Fuller, xii. 347
Murray (J. H.) on Archbishop of Dublin in 1349,
viii. 352. Cardinals, i. 50. " Twopence for
manners," vii. 228
Murray (R.) on police uniforms : omnibuses, iii.
137
Murray (S.) on Murray surname, vi. 349 Murray baronetcy about 1802, i. 427 Murray surname in England, vi. 349
- Murray's Handbook for Yorkshire,' ii. 105
Muscle and music in China, viii. 445 Muscovy company, its history, vi. 149, 252 Muses, Academy of the, iv. 54, 177, 233 Museum Minervse, Covent Garden, c. 1626, iv. 54 Mush=an umbrella, slang word, ix. 67 Mush faker = an umbrella-mender, slang word, ix.
67
Music and the Bass Rock, i. 308, 374, 437 ; in country churches, iii. 185, 253 ; pictures inspired by, iv. 9, 57, 91 ; temp. Louis XIV., 46 ; and footfalls, 161 ; in England in Shakespeare's time, vii. 360 ; Meyerbeer scholarship, viii. 190 ; earliest printed, 369, 475 ; in China, 445 ; and lizards, xi. 167, 277, 351
Music Catalogue at the British Museum, vi. 87 Music publisher, earliest British, viii. 369, 475 Music tree, meaning of the term, v. 188 Musical composers as pianists, vi. 490 ; vii. 34,
236
Musical family : Dr. Jay, vii. 293 Musical genius and heredity, vii. 170, 236, 433 ;
viii. 33 Musical instrument auctioneers : Puttick &
Simpson, viii. 363 Musical services held on church towers, viii. 8, 96,
153 Musical terms, ' Short Explication ' of, 1724, vii.
409, 454, 477
Musk melons, c. 1632, xi. 324
Musket, called "Brown Bess," v. 21, 91, 154, 414 Musk-million, its modern equivalent, vi. 288, 338 Muskyll, use and meaning of the word, 1497, i.
228, 335
Musquash, etymology of the word, ii. 46 Musselwhite surname, its meaning, i. 248, 314 Mussuk, its use and description, ii. 263, 329, 371,
431 ; iii. 13 Musters, military, c. 1572, Tinners in, vii. 428 ;
viii. 55 ; for training in Devonshire, xi. 408 Mustlar, use and meaning of the word, 1473, i. 228,
335
Muswell Hill, its locality, iii. 387, 436 ; iv. 77 Mutations, Welsh, iv. 286
Mutschmann (H.) on " Correct to a T," xii. 313 Mutton and races at Banstead, x. 246 Muzhitekka, ghost-word, v. 385 Mychell (William) and Sebastian Cabot, v. 306,
357
Myddelton (T. C.) on " February fill dyke," iii. 333. Lord Mayor's Show, xii. 473. Ritual question, vi. 512 Myddelton (W. M.) on Myddelton family, vii. 12.
Preston (James), x. 295 Myddelton family, vi. 428 ; vii. 12 Myers (F. W. H.), error in his monograph on Wordsworth, viii. 4:86
Myers (J. B.) on Baptist Confession of Faith, iii.
116
Myers (W. H.) on prsemunire, vii. 189 Myrtle, strewn before bride's residence, i. 411 ;
Dr. Johnson's verses on sprig of, x. 204 Mythology, Celtic, vii. 86
N
N, pronounced ng, i. 247, 291, 356 ; liquid, in
English, xi. 105, 170, 251, 335 N. on bibliography of publishing, ii. 12. " Franche
leal et oie," vi. 210 N. (A.) on authors of quotations wanted, iv. 68.
Gibbets, iv. 296, 315 N. (A. A.) on Romanoff and Stuart pedigree, iv.
108 N. (C.) on " le " before trades, xii. 189. Steerage
on a frigate, xii. 470 N. (F.) on Shropshire and Montgomeryshire
manors, ii. 148. Truckee, ix. 109. ' Villikins
and his Dinah,' iv. 188 N. (F. E.) on pie : tart, viii. 134 N. (F. M. ) on authors of quotations wanted, ix. 328 N. (H.) on " Dark as black pigs," xii. 318 N. (J.) on Napoleon's carriage, vii. 170 N. (J. A.) on Burney family, v. 510 ; vi. 112.
English bishop (first) to marry, x. 475 N. (J. W.) on Mohammedan and Christian
chronology, xi. 212 N. (L. C.) on leech-gathering, ix. 189. Snake
committing suicide, xii. 228 N. (M.) on Creole folk-lore, ix. 494. *' Frittars or
greaves," viii. 36. Irun, Spain, v. 470. ' It is
the Mass that matters," x. 470. Ketty land,
ix. 416. Lonning, iv. 70. Mellon (Miss) and
the Wigan stage, xii. 405. Moon folk-lore, i.
252. Pilgrim Fathers, xii. 90. Rump of a
goose and drinking bouts, vii. 418. Rush- lights, x. 275. Wigan bell foundry, v. 257.
Wound : its pronunciation, viii. 74 N. (M. E.) on churchwardens' accounts, vi. 36 N. (P. A. O.) on football at Scone, xi. 309 N. (R. A.) on Hafiz, Persian poet, v. 115 N. (T.) on folk-rime or nursery rime, ix. 510.
Pail : bucket, vi. 408. School slang at Rossall,
vii. 125 ; xii. 66. Swift's concealment of his
marriage, vi. 50. "Though lost to sight," xi.
498
N. (W. H. W.) on Opie print, ix. 274 N. (W. I. A.) on Keble on stars reflected in ice,
xii. 289 N. (Y.) on Hebrew traditions, iv. 429. Messiah =
name of the Lord, iv. 529 Nabob, derivation of the word, ii. 445 Nadgairs, its meaning, iv. 49, 213 Nafedave, use of the term, xii. 170, 296 Nail and clove, the words as measures, iii. 41, 134,
231 Nailsea Court, Somerset, its history, vi. 266, 311,
336, 433 Nairne (Lady) and the song ' Charlie, He's my
Darling,' y. 45
Nait, a river island, use of the word, vi. 424 " Naked Boy and Coffin," old City sign, iii. 67, 156,
213
Naker, derivation of the word, ii. 68, 132 Nalson (John), and the ' D.N.B.,' iii. 205 Name, Christian, addition to, iii. 328, 374, 416 ;
three brothers with same, vii. 246 Name coincidences, iii. 466 Name corruption : Mountain Bower, Wiltshire,
xi. 505 ; xii. 38 Name origins treated philologically, i. 329