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Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853

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And it was left to Mr. Keightley to bless the world with the information that it was "things."

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Merlin's hawks.

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Doubtful; but perhaps for syngies, an old name for the finch.

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Your correspondent may be referred to Memoirs of the Life of Bishop Butler, by a connexion of his own, the Rev. Thomas Bartlett, A.M., published in 1839; and to a review of the same work in the Quarterly Review, vol. lxiv. p. 331.

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Except x (=cs). Compare flax, wax, ox.

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From serv-us (after the French) we form serf.

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Rebus, overplus, and surplus may, if not satisfied, take an omnibus, bring their action at the Nisi Prius, and meet there with a nonplus.

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