458 Mr. Pickering-on the present state of the English language 
they have dank-dill, which Johnson defines—“ a note for money hid up in 
a bank, at the sight of which the money is paid.” His authority is.a pas- 
~ sage from Swift’s will—“ Let three hundred pounds be paid her out of my 
_ ready-money or bank-dills.” The same phraseology occurs in another part 
of the will. It is not certain, that Swift (or the scrivener who drew his 
will) intended by Jank-dills what are now called éank-notes in England, as 
will presently appear; but if he did, the term 4ank-note was themalso in 
use; and, at the present day, isthe only name given to what are called 
bank-bills in America. In Rees’ Cyclopedia, article BANK OF ENGLAND, 
the term dank-note is constantly used :—“ This money [of the. bank] con- 
sists in ordinary times, partly of coin, and partly of dank-notes.” In the 
American additions to this work, bank-bill is generally used. 
The term éank-dill seems to haye been used formerly in England to. 
denote a bank security, which differed in some respects from common bank- 
notes. From a case before Lord Holt in the year 1698, just after the bank. 
of England was incorporated, Gini 1 | Lord Raymond’ s Reports, 738) it would 
_ Seem, that the benk tills were pee in the real names of the original hold- 
in oS names of the aes owners. 
‘there was ot i 
= <a ae eee ee 
rare Serercn bills aa NOLES r—6t Opa this the credit cy ene bank [of 
England] recovered immediately, until in a few weeks their notes, which 
bore 0 interest, were equal with money, and their di//s, that bore interest, 
better than money.” Tindal’s Continuation of Rapin’s Hist. of Engl. vol. 
__ iii, p. 335, folio edit. The English statutes for preventing forgeries « of the 
bank-securities also use both the terms, and, apparently, to signify two dif- 
ferent things. Mr. Webster has bank-bill, but not bank-note. 
BARBACUE, The following extract from the work of an English traveller in 
America will ‘explain the meaning of this term, and at the same time vin- 
dicate the people of Virginia from the calumnies of prejudiced foreigners : 
“ Mons. de Willd, in his French translation of these travels, makes the fol- 
lowing observation upon the word barbacue :—* Cet amusement barbare 
consiste & fouétter les porcs jusqu’ 4 la mort pour en rendre la chair plus 
