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of the late Confederation in the United States, the soldiers of the 

 North \rere Hessians. — Contraband, which in our time has acquired 

 the force of a proper name, euphemistic for negro, is of German 

 descent : it is something imported in contravention of han or public 

 edict. 



9. I come now to miscellaneous examples. And first, I notic6 

 bos, the style and title under which lumberers, surveyor's asssistants, 

 workmen in manufactories, farm-laborers, and others, commonly, 

 among themselves at least, speak of their employer. It is the Low 

 German baas, having exactly the same import. Netherlanders have 

 the phrase den baas spelen, to act the bos, to domineer. — Drug is the 

 L. G. drooff, literally dry, having reference to the herbs, roots and 

 barks of the primitive pharmacopcgia. — Copperas is probably Jcupfer- 

 ■uoasser. Potash is the plain English of poft-asche, which is the origi- 

 nal also of the mongrel Latin potassium. The maulstick of the artist 

 is mahler-stoch A.nglicised, mahler being painter. — Jig is the H. G. 

 geige, from gehen to go or move. (The French gigot means the 

 violin-shaped iomt.') Buskin is the L. G. broose-Mn, a diminutive 

 of broos, a leather-cothurnus. — Smug, and arch, in the special sense 

 of sly or shrewd, are H. G. schmuct and arg. — The sharh of the Ex- 

 change is the L. G. schurJc, an uncomplimentary appellative. — HuHy- 

 burly, although explained otherwise also, is, according to some, from 

 ehrlich, honest, and wahrlich, true-ly. — Grichet, the game, appears 

 to get its name from TcracTc-e, a trestle or wooden horse, i.e. the 

 wicket. (May Croquet be a modification of cricket? Or has it 

 ainything to do with a well-known abbreviation of Crockford, a name 

 associated, temp. Geo. IV., with a not dissimilar game ?) — Haber- 

 dasher is from habt-ihr-das ? ' have you that V Others explain the 

 term by a reference to habe, wares, and tauschen, to exchange. It 

 has also been assigned, with less probability, to a Erench source, 

 avoir d^acheter. The verbs, to dismay, to carouse, to shore up, to 

 eschew, to lure or allure are transformations of Teutonic words. To 

 dismay is dis (privative), magan, the same as machen, to make. 

 Hence it means to unmake, undo, render inefficient through fear, &e. 

 Carouse is deduced from the L. G. kroes, cup. Others fetch it from 

 a greater distance — from ll. G. gar aus, quite (drained) out. To 

 shore up comes from the L. G. schoor. To eschew is the H. G. 

 Mcheuen, to shun or be shy of. To lure or allure is to bring back the 

 falcon to the hand by means of the luoder, 0. H. G. for the piece of 



