10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CUMBERMENT»
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The Dialect of West Somerset: A Paper Read Before the ...
The \wavee-u\ though precisely the same sound as that used to cause horses to
stop, is probably in this combination with ye — come hither, with ye ! See Way,
Wug. CUMBERMENT [kuunrburmunt], sb. Incumbrance, hindrance, impediment.
Frederick Thomas Elworthy,
1875
The [tvai'ee-ti], though precisely the same sound as that used to cause horses to
stop, is probably in this combination with ye — come hither, with ye ! See WAY,
WUG. CUMBERMENT [kuunrburmunt], si. Incumbrance, hindrance, impediment.
English Dialect Society,
1886
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The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and ...
You zee, mum, tidn same's 'off I was a young man 'thout no cumberment ;
anybody could do then eens they be aminded. CUNNING [kuun-een], adj. Wrise,
able, skilful, dexterous. This word in the dialect keeps only its original meanings,
and ...
Frederick Thomas Elworthy,
1886
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A guide to forming and conducting lyceums, debating ...
Wherein is the expression last resort, inferior to dernier resort, liberal arts to
beaux arts, and polite literature to belle lettres 1 Use of good words, new
modelled — That is, new formations from primitives in present use ; as in-
cumberment, portic, ...
5
The Essays of Elia and Eliana
The noble images passions, sentiments, and poetics. delicacies of character,
scattered all over the Arcadia (spite of some stiffness and en— cumberment),
justify to me the character which his contemporaries have left us of the writer.
cannot ...
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A Glossarial Index to the Printed English Literature of the ...
76 Cumberment, sb. Al s. 472 Cummin, ab. Alys. 6 97 Cumrade, = relation. See
Kindred Cundut, sb.=reli ious service. O. and N. 483. Fr. con uis Cunig, = coney.
q. v. Cunne, vb. See Can Cup, ab. RG. 117 Cure, ab. (of souls). 857 B. Cume,
v. a. ...
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English, containing ...
Terence in English. 1 641 . Cumber-ground, s. A useless thing. Cumberment, s.
Trouble. Cumbled, part. p. Oppressed; cramped. Cumbly-cold adj. Stiff with cold.
Eatt. Cumfirie, s. The daisy. Cummed-milk,*. Curds and whey Lane. Cummy, adj.
... above all, the existence of any secret trust In favor of the debtor, or of any
express trust or in- cumberment of his property which may make the remedy of
the creditor more difficult, are the common indicia of fraud. There is literally no
evidence ...
The experience of advancing with an army making rapid attacks subjects all
roads immediately behind the army to an immense en- cumberment of material
and impediments. It was not only at the front that difficulty was experienced in
keeping ...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
... for my example to disburden themselves of this elegant cumberment of the
body, (I being the guest of honour,) and that .it was the universal custom in
Vienna, even in the most polished society, to 'take off the coat without ceremony
when any ...