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mistake. Bacon has ' by-laws or ordinances of corporations.' 

 Hen. vii. p. 216, (R) or ed. Lumby, p. 196." 



These words are from the Scandinavian, A.-S., and German, 

 possibly also from the Greek, not belonging to the Latin or 

 the Celtic family. 



Cae. Care. 



Icel. hjarr, copsewood, brushwood, hjarr-myrr, a marsh over- 

 grown with brushwood; Suio-Goth. ".2«rr, palus, locus palus- 

 tris, Angli boreales paludem carre vocant," Ihre ; Dan. TcjcEr, 

 id. ; Sw. Mrr, marsh, fen, bog, moor, morass. 



In Wei. cors, a bog or fen, and Gael, car, a mossy plain, con, 

 hoglaeh ; Ir. corrac, curragh, coreach; Manx hoglach, curragh; are 

 Celtic equivalents. 



'Lot. palus, pratum palustre, humus paludosa, solum uUginosum ; 

 Ital. paiude, stagno, ; Sp. pantano, marjal ; Port, pantano, paul ; 

 Fr. marais, etang ; Ger. marscMand ; Dut. and Elem. moeras. 



*' Carre, a hollow place where water stands." Eay's Gloss. 



" CAr, care, a pool." Edmunds. 



" Carr, a piece of flat, marshy ground, a small lake." Brockett. 



" Car or carr, in Yorkshire "West Riding is flat, marshy land." 



" Carr, a low lying place, or a pool in which alders may 

 have grown, e.g. Carr Lane, near Eothwell." Batty's Hist, of 

 Rothwell. 



" Corse, herss, low and fertile land. Car, pron. q. Caur in 

 Lincolnshire, denotes a low, flat piece of land, on the borders of 

 a river, that is frequently or occasionally overflooded." Jamieson's 

 Diet, and Suppl. e.g. The Carse o' Gowrie. Kerr, is in Scot- 

 land pronounced Carr. 



" Car, carr, a flat marshy piece of land under natural herbage, 

 usually lying at or near the foot of a bank, and in that sense 

 low ; not necessarily low otherwise ; generally used in the 

 plural. Also a small wood or grove of alders, usually Aldercar ; 

 of course growing on boggy soil." Atkinson's Clev. Dial. 



" Carr, low marshy ground, fen ; contradistinct from Ing, as 

 being pastured." Engl. Dial. Sec. East Yorkshire. 



