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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
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| No. 39. | SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1850 | Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d. |
CONTENTS.
| NOTES:— | Page |
| Etymology of "Whitsuntide" and "Mass" | 129 |
| Folk Lore:—Sympathetic Cures—Cure for Ague—Eating Snakes a Charm for growing young | 130 |
| Long Meg of Westminster, by E.F. Rimbault | 131 |
| A Note on Spelling,—"Sanatory," "Connection" | 131 |
| Minor Notes:—Pasquinade on Leo XII.—Shakspeare a Brass-rubber—California—Mayor of Misrule and Masters of the Pastimes—Roland and Oliver | 131 |
| QUERIES:— | |
| The Story of the Three Men and their Bag of Money | 132 |
| The Geometrical Foot, by A. De Morgan | 133 |
| Minor Queries:—Plurima Gemma—Emmote de Hastings—Boozy Grass—Gradely—Hats worn by Females—Queries respecting Feltham's Works—Eikon Basilice—"Welcome the coming, speed the parting Guest"—Carpets and Room-paper—Cotton of Finchley—Wood Carving in Snow Hill—Walrond Family—Translations—Bonny Dundee—Graham of Claverhouse—Franz von Sickingen—Blackguard—Meaning of "Pension"—Stars and Stripes of the American Arms—Passages from Shakspeare—Nursery Rhyme—"George" worn by Charles I.—Family of Manning of Norfolk—Salingen a Sword Cutler—Billingsgate—"Speak the Tongue that Shakspeare spoke"—Genealogical Queries—Parson, the Staffordshire Giant—Unicorn in the Royal Arms—The Frog and the Crow of Ennow—"She ne'er with treacherous Kiss," &c. | 133 |
| REPLIES:— | |
| A treatise on Equivocation | 136 |
| Further Notes on the Derivation of the Word "News" | 137 |
| "News," "Noise," and "Parliament" | 138 |
| Shakpeare's Use of the Word "Delighted" by Rev. Dr. Kennedy and J.O. Halliwell | 139 |
| Replies to Minor Queries:—Execution of Charles I.—Sir T. Herbert's Memoir of Charles I.—Simon of Ghent—Chevalier de Cailly—Collar of Esses—Hell paved with good Intentions—The Plant "Hæmony"—Practice of Scalping among the Scythians—Scandinavian Mythology—Cromwell's Estates—Magor—"Incidis in Scyllam"—Dies Iræ—Fabulous Account of the Lion—Caxton's Printing-Office | 140 |
| MISCELLANEOUS:— | |
| Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, &c. | 142 |
| Books and Odd Volumes Wanted | 143 |
| Answers to Correspondents | 143 |
NOTES.
ETYMOLOGY OF "WHITSUNTIDE" AND "MASS".
Perhaps the following Note and Query on the much-disputed origin of the word Whitsunday, as used in our Liturgy, may find a place in your Journal. None of the etymologies of this word at present in vogue is at all satisfactory. They are—
I. White Sunday: and this, either—
1. From the garments of white linen, in which those who were at that season admitted to the rite of holy baptism were clothed; (as typical of the spiritual purity therein obtained:) or,—
2. From the glorious light of heaven, sent down from the father of Lights on the day of Pentecost: and "those vast diffusions of light and knowledge, which were then shed upon the Apostles, in order to the enlightening of the world." (Wheatley.) Or,—
3. From the custom of the rich bestowing on this day all the milk of their kine, then called white meat, on the poor. (Wheatley, from Gerard Langbain.)
II. Huict Sunday: from the French, huit, eight; i.e. the eighth Sunday from Easter. (L'Estrange, Alliance Div. Off.)
III. There are others who see that neither of these explanations can stand; because the ancient mode of spelling the word was not Whit-sunday, but Wit-sonday (as in Wickliff), or Wite-sonday (which is as old as Robert of Gloucester, c. A.D. 1270). Hence,—
1. Versteran's explanation:—That it is Wied Sunday, i.e. Sacred Sunday (from Saxon, wied, or wihed, a word I do not find in Bosworth's A.-S. Dict.; but so written in Brady's Clovis Calendaria, as below). But why should this day be distinguished as sacred beyond all other Sundays in the year?
2. In Clavis Calendaria, by John Brady (2 vols. 8vo. 1815), I find, vol. i. p. 378., "Other authorities contend," he does not say who those authorities are, "that the original name of