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stan, stone, 

 stic, piece, joint. 



fife, (befe, J>efan; and Gl. Epinal theban-), 

 only with -born, for Rhamnus; and it seems 

 to mean ' stinking : ' see Leo, Angdscechs. 

 Glossar. The German name for Rhamnus 

 Frangula is t^aulborn, because of its nauseous 

 smell. 



wald, wold ; also "Weald in local names, 

 windel, machine for winding ; reel, windlass. 

 Only in oleaster windel treow ; and the 

 reason of the translation is not obvious. 

 Perhaps the foreign tree had suggested an 

 English Ligustrum, or Euonymus or Rham- 

 nus, trees whose branches are suited for 

 making spinster's yarn-reels. In the Leech- 

 doms there is a grass called windel streaw. 

 This I take to be a tall grass whose panicle 

 expands in radiating whorls, like Poa tri- 

 vialis. Such a florescence readily suggests 

 a skeleton winding reel. It is often said that 

 windel = basket : but upon what grounds I 

 do not know. 



In the relations of simple names like 

 hune to compounds like harhune, as also in 

 the relations between the parts of the 

 compounds, which is the same relation in 

 another aspect, we perceive something 



