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9*8. IX. JUNE 21, 1902.] NOTES AND QUERIES.


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Gold, v. (obs.). 1900, Huxley, ' Life,' vol. ii. p. 101, p. 42, " * Ah, no, ah, no,' she said crooningly, as if 11 It blew and rained and colded for eight and forty she comforted the child." hours consecutively."

CoUotypy. See 'Chromo-collotypy' above.

GolonJicatioH (not in). 1799 TJordan ?]. ' New Observations concerning the Inflections of Light,' p. 128.

Combinability (not in). 1900, G. lies, 'Flame, Electricity, and the Camera,' p. 255, "All the pro- perties of matter, transparency, chemical combina- bility, and the rest."


Cross-bar (sense 3). For " bar sinister" read baton sinister.

Crotching (not in). Spon, ut supra, p. 431, "The style of grain varies. Generally in panels ' crotch- ing' is resorted to." (In graining.)

Crotch punch (not in ; for saws). Spon. ut supra, p. 218, "Spread setting -is generally informed by crotch punches."

Crow-Jig (not in). 1895, Bloxam, ' Chem.' (eighth


Come, v. (earlier of sense 15) 1605 [S. Harsnet], ed.), p." 760, " Nux-vomica, or crow-tig, contains

" Declar. of Egreg. Popish Impostures,' p. 135, " The about 1 per cent, of strychnine." butter would not come." Crumpet (not in). 1902, Strand Mag.. March,

Commonplacely (not in). 1893, G. Travers, 'Mona p. 298, "He placed his hand against his forehead.


Maclean,' vol. i. p. 57, "Uniformly, hideously, commonplacely yellow."

Compromisee(not in). 18.^3, J. K. Bangs, ' Topple-

ton's Client,' p. 168, " To distinguish my clients

by calling them respectively the compromisee and the compromiser."

Comptometer (not in). 1894, Times, 19 March, p. 13, col. 5, " The comptometer, which is a machine specially adapted for subtraction, multiplication, and division.'


Barmy on the crumpet,' he observed." Crutch (earlier). 1711, Sutherland, Shipbuilder's

Assistant,' p. 159, "Crutches, or Clutches: large

Knees fitted in the aft part of the Ship in Hold, to

bind the parts together." Cuckle (not in). 1889, Saunders, 'Brit. Birds,'

p. 719, " On Lundy, where it [the Manx shearwater.

Puflinus anglorum] is well known as the 'Cuckle.' Cucumber-beetle (not in). 1852, Harris, ' Insects

of New England ' (second ed.), p. 110. " These striped

cucumber-Beetles notorious for their attacks


Cope bead. Spon, ut supra, p. 374, "The other

drawers receive a in. mahogany beading all upon the leaves of the cucumber and squash

round. This is called a ' cope bead.' ' r (Galeruca vittata).

Corking (not in). 1902, Munsey's Mag., March,

p. 810, "A good show and a corking good show

at that."

Corklit (not in ; cf. Cork, sb. 2). 1894, Crockett, 'Raiders,' p. 132, "They slide and scrape corklit from the stones."

Nature


the


Corkscrew-grass (not in). 1898, Nature, p. 311, " Spear or corkscrew -grass (Stipa setacea).'

Uorrosivity (earlier). 1689, Glauber's ' Works,' part i. pp. 314, 334.

Corymbous (no quot.). 1806, J. Galpine, 'Brit. Bot.,' p. 173, "F[lowers]corymbous."

Cotton-bales (not in). 1894, Amer. Ann. Photog., p. 24, " The cloud well known as ' cotton-bales,' or ' thunder-heads,' we term cumulus."

Cottonous (obs.). 1797, Month. Mag., iii. p. 303, " Two indigenous and common cottonous plants."

Cotton-rose (no quot. ). 1853, Morfit, 'Arts of Tanning,' p. 79, "FUago Germanica (common cotton-rose)."

Coxcombishness (not in). 1890, D. C. Murray,

  • John Vale's Guardian,' vol. ii. p. 143.

Crake, v. 1892, H. Hutchinson, ' Fairway Island,'

p. 2, " The landrail craked unceasing, in a field

upon his left."

Cresylite (not in). 1892, ' Chambers's Ency.,' vol. ix. p. 386, " The French use cresylite, a com- pound of cresol, as melinite is of phenol." (Ex- plosive for shells.)

Crevicing (not in; cf. Crevice, 1 b). 1895, Ander- son, 'Prospector's Handbook' (sixth ed.), p. 157, " Crevicing collecting gold in the crevices of rock. Crisp, sb.


Cur (= bird). -Used by Col. P. Hawker, 'Diary,' 1893, to denote the scaup-duck.

Curdy. 1892, Hutchinson, 'Fairway Island, p. 17, " He '11 be fine and curdy." (Of a salmon.)

Cushion (electr. ; earlier). 1745, Gent. Mag., p. 295, " To imitate Mr. Winkler in his precaution, which is to fasten a cushion, powder 1 d with chalk, against the electric globe."

Cyclostat (not in) 1899, English Mechanic, p. 482,

The neat and ingenious instrument devised by

Dr. Charles A. Perkins of the University of Ten- nessee and called by him the Cyclostat is for

continuously viewing a rotary object."

Cymbal (earlier of sense). 1690, Hams, 'Specif. Magdalen Coll. Organ,' in Grove, 'Diet. Mus., *.r. ' Organ,' " Cymbal of 2 ranks, 100 pipes." (Named

y Cf/mous(no quot.). 1806, J. Galpine, 'Brit. Bot.,' p. 114, " Racemes cymous."

Cypress pine. Spon, ut supra, p. 131, pine (Callitris columellaris) is a plentiful Queensland."

J. DORMER.

Redmorion, Woodside Green, S.E. (To be continued.)

"FROM THE LONE SHIELING." It has long

been widely accepted that the exile poem, the best-known stanza of which begins From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas,


Cypress tree in


-1847, Halvorson m Morfit, ut supra, wr i t ten by the Earl of Eglmton. The

p. 459, " Keep it [the skin] therein (while the oil is * as nuen oy k ^ s

boiling), until a white or yellowish scale or crisp lines \yere tirst > u o"8"" m . ftltere d

begins to form on its surface." Magazine for September, 1829 , in ai

quot,).-1902, Windsor form they appeared in Taits Mapu


Crocodile (sense 4, no