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its present restricted sense, but in a general sense as the 

 Scotch now use their term. 



Dean Trench quotes a passage from VVycliff s Bible, in 

 illustration : — " And he covetede to fill his ivombe of the 

 coddis that the hoges eaten, and no man gaf him." And 

 Chaucer in his Parson's Tale, quoting the portion of Scripture 

 in reference to gluttons, says — " Their tvomhe is their God." 

 It is in this general sense, which was the old English mean- 

 ing, the term continues, in the Scotch form, to be used in 

 Scotland. 



To those words which have meanings which are now ob- 

 solete in England, we may here subjoin words which are 

 there themselves obsolete, but are nevertheless still commpn 

 in Scotch. For convenience, we distribute them into two 

 classes — namely, 1, such words as may still be traced and 

 recognised in England, and 2, such as are now wholly obso- 

 lete and out of use there, but still retained in Scotch. 



To the first class belong such words as to fare, meaning 

 to go, to pass, to journey — which we still recognise in boat 

 and cab fares, or passage money. 



In the poem of Peebles to the Play we read " There fure 

 a man to the holt." Fure is the past tense of the verb to 

 fare, and the line is equiv^alent to saying — There went a 

 man to the holt or wood. 



The Gab is the mouth, and thence by extension to talk, 

 which we recognise in gabble, to talk idly. 



The Lug is the ear, which we recognise in the phrase to 

 lug one along, meaning to haul or pull along as by the ears. 



To reck is still part of the language in the word reckless, 

 meaning inconsiderate, careless, regardless. 



We have the past tense of the verb in the old ballad of 

 Sir Tryaraore : 



*' There was many a seemly man. 

 Mo tban I tell you can, 



And of them all he na raght." 



And in Burus's laDsruaae — 



