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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ear, to plough, from the Sanscrit ' ar ;' whence Ear eth, the Earth, that which can be ploughed. Ear fest, harvest, the festival of earing, or gathering the crops. Earth fast, ) firm in the earth, and difficult to be removed ; Yird fast, j of the same derivation as steadfast, fast in stead, or place, and metaphorically, to a purpose. Thus a tree that rocks to and fro in the wind, is not so much steadfast, as earth fast ; and a rock, or stone in the river, as in the fol lowing example, is properly called earth fast. About the middle o' Clyde water, There was a gird fast stane. Ballad of Burd Helen. Earth tilth, agriculture. Eath, When ec.se abounds it's ealh to do amiss. Spenser: Fairie Queens. , Uneath may she endure the flinty streets. Shakspeare : King Henry VI. The Miller sat unethes (uneasily) upon his horse. Chaucer : The Knight's Tale. Y I Lo thinks him most secure is eathest shamed. Fairfax: Tasso. A scald head is eath to bleed. An unlucky man's cart is eath tumbled. It's eath keeping a castle that's no besieged. Eath earned, soon forgotten. It's eath finding a stick to beat a dog. Allan Ramsay : Scotch Proeerbs. Eft, again, quick, soon. And in three days after, Edifie it eft anew. Piers Ploughman. Yea marry that's the eftest way. Muck Ado about Nothing.Eftsoons, soon, presently, by and bye. Hold off! Unhand me, gray head loon, Iflsoons his head dropped he. Coleridge. Egg, to instigate, incite, provoke to action. It is now thought a vulgarism to say ' that a man was egged on to do anything ;' but the word is pure Anglo Saxon, from eggian to excite ; and of the same family as eager. Through egging of his wife. Chaucer : The Marchant's Tale. Mother, quod ehe, and maiden bright Marie, . Sooth is it that ...
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