19th century Englishmen Thomas & William Bowler got their names in the dictionary by making these
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W.L. Walton, mid 19th Century, after Thomas William Bowler | A ...  View W.L. Walton, mid 19th Century, after Thomas William Bowler , A View of Cape Town from Table Bay; The Public Library and Museum, from the Botanic...
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List of English inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia  English inventions and discoveries are objects, processes or techniques invented or .... 1856: Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye, discovered by William Henry Perkin .... Tom Kilburn (19212001); historically significant because of its pioneering ..... Late-19th century: Modern pay toilet invented by John Nevil Maskelyne...
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Chinaman (term) - Wikipedia  Chinaman is a contentious English language term that denotes a Chinese man or person, or as a Chinese national, or, in some cases, an indiscriminate term for a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived East Asian race. Although the term has no negative connotations in older dictionaries, and the ... Its derogatory connotations evolved from its use in pejorative contexts...
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Jeopary Questions page 871 - NAME THE YEAR - TriviaBistro.com  BRITISH FASHION: 19th century Englishmen Thomas & William Bowler got their names in the dictionary by making these  WHAT CENTURY ARE YOU LIVING...
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bowler - definition of bowler in English | Oxford Dictionaries  a member of the fielding side who bowls or is bowling., a... Meaning ... Mid 19th century: named after William Bowler, the English hatter who designed it in 1850.
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jeopardy/1104_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SWEDEN | The coast near Varberg has been called the "Swedish" this, a term .... A 19th century form of theatrical spotlight gave us the common phrase "In" this | The limelight ... NAMES IN PLAYS | The name of the Montecchi, a noble family of the 13th century, was anglicized to this | Montague (from Romeo and Juliet.
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Noah Webster Biography | Noah Webster House and West Hartford ...  In 1801, Webster started working on defining the words that Americans use. ... He also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like "skunk" and "squash." His first edition, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1806.
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kegelers - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  from German, from Kegel pin, from Old High German kegil peg ... a person who bowls | [British] a derby hat (8 of 19 words, 2 definitions, pronunciations, 1 image) ... bowler hat | bowler | derby | bowler-hatted [adjective, British, derived] ... Origin: German, from kegeln, to bowl, from Kegel, bowling pin, from Middle High German...
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English Family History and Genealogy - Price & Associates  Latin Forms of English Surnames (The Record Interpreter)  Devon FHS ... index)  Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 1890-1980  Staffordshire Historical...
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Cockney - Meaning Definition Synonym Synopsis - Social Vocabulary  Possibly from Middle English cokeney (a small, misshapen egg), from coken ... 1859, J.C. Hotten, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words, 22 ... Londoners, and all within the sound of Bow Bell, are in reproach called Cockneys. ... The present sense of Cockney comes from its use among rural Englishmen...
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Freer Name Meaning & Freer Family History at Ancestry.com  ... from Old French and Middle English frere 'friar' (Latin frater, literally 'brother'). ... order, especially a mendicant order, and may also have been a nickname for a ... The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at...
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Desert island discs: every guest listed | News | theguardian.com  Jan 27, 2012 ... One: James Mason in 1961, wanted bagpipes, to the undoubted .... Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, A tropical plant book in Italian with English gloss, Hurdy gurdy ..... Sir Richard Sykes, Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, Telescope ...... Matthew Bourne, The Kenneth Williams Diaries, spotted dick with Lyon's...
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Full text of "Dictionary of English literature; being a comprehensive ...  Alfred. A poem in twelve books, by Sir Richard Blackmore (1650  1729), published ... It has been translated into several European ALI I 16 ] Alili languages. .... He is the minstrel of the merry band of venison-hunters, who held high revel in ... A, L. O. E. The well-Imown initials, adopted S-s a pseudonym by Miss Tucker, the...
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Dick Whittington and His Cat - Wikipedia  Dick Whittington and His Cat is the name of English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 13541423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London, telling a ... Chapbook editions of the legend more or less after T.H.'s version appeared after 1730 into the 19th century. These chapbook editions were...
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Dictionary - Wikipedia  A dictionary is a collection of words on one or more specific languages, often alphabetically (or by radical ... Although the first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times (these were bilingual dictionaries), the .... The word dictionary was invented by an Englishman called John of Garland in 1220 - he had written a...
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A List of Occupations  A local term in some parts of Lancashire for a butcher; BOWLER - made bowls and .... DOG LEECH - veterinarian; DOG-WHIPPER - drove dogs away in a village ..... or a person who looked after horses, coming from the old French 'hostelier' ..... TUBMAN - English barrister; TUCKER - cleaner of cloth goods; TUCKER IN...
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Etymologically Speaking...  Some of these are English, but some are French and German words from ... Slaves given to Roman soldiers to reward them for performance in battle were known as addicts. .... It seems the melon was first grown in a town in Italy called Cantaluppi. ..... From the Latin word for the basket or wooden box in which compressed...
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Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia  The name Webster's Dictionary may refer to any of the line of dictionaries first developed by ... His first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, ... Published by the author, the first printing was in 1841 by B.L. Hamlen, of New ... both the Compendious (1806) and American (1828) dictionaries and brings...
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games-master - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com  James Boswell Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson. genus Piscidia genus of shrubs or small trees having indehiscent pods with black seeds; ... Thomas Bayes English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named.
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free expressions meanings, words, phrases origins and derivations  This extension to the expression was American (Worldwidewords references ..... In the 19th century the term beak also referred to a sherif's officer (English) or a ...... in this sense was first recorded in the 1920s with possible Australian origins. ...... cookie - biscuit, and various crude meanings - the slang meanings of cookie...
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of</b> Word and Phrase Origins.pdf  English languageTerms and phrases. I. Title. II. ... you will find all the famous four-letter words here (and then some!). Perhaps I .... Bartlett John Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms (1877). Barlett's ..... This expression probably has its origins in a phrase ...... Wort, from the Old En glish wyrt, root, plant, means a plant...