10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNIWASSAL»
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New Original Work of ...
duniwassal—. dupeability. 227 dun i was sal, s. [Gael, duin'utual, from dirine =a
man| and uasal = gentle.] A gentleman ; a squire. Among the Highlanders, It
seems to denote a cadet of a family of rank. who receives his title from the land
which ...
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The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of ...
duniwassal. —. dupeability. 227 dun -i- was' -sal« □'- [Gael, du in' nasal, from
duine =a man) and ttasal = gentle.] A gentleman ; a squire. Among the
Highlanders, it seems to denote a cadet of a family of rank, who receives his title
from the ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
... she a vassal or commoner of an inferior tribe, GARNET Tour (1800) I. 200 (_]
Am.). Gall. Nae gutterbluid lie, but a brave duniwassal, HARPER Bards (ed. 1889
) 43. ' 2. The lower class of farmers. Ayr. Used gen. in a contemptuous way (_]AM.
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
DUNIWASSAL. sb. Sc. Also written donnawassel, duinhé-wassel, duin-wassal.
duniwessle. dunniewassel. l. A nobleman, a cadet of a noble house among the
Highland clans ; a gentleman of secondary rank. Se. \Vho . . . claimed the rank of
a ...
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Lloyd's Encyclopædic dictionary
duniwassal — dupeability 227 [Gael. duin'uasal, from duine = a man* and uascu.
= gentle.] A gentleman ; a squire. Among the Highlanders, it seems to denote a
cadet of a family of rank, who receives his title from the land which he occupies, ...
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Universal dictionary of the English language: a new and ...
duniwassal— dupeability 1779 dfin l was sal, s. [Gael, duin'uasal, from duitie — a
man) and uasai = gentle. J A gentleman; s squire. Among the Highlanders, it
seems to denote a cadet of a family of rank, wlio receives his title from the laud ...
Robert Hunter, Charles Morris,
1898
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
DUNIWASSAL dominium, a principal possession, domain, dominion ; so called
because the chief tower. See further under Dominion, Domain. DUNIWASSAL, a
Highland gentleman, a yeoman. (C.) In Sir W. Scott's 'Bonnie Dundee.' -Gael.
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The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New & Original Work of ...
duniwassal— dupeability 227 boll, h6$; pout, Jo^krl; cat, 9011, chorus, chin,
bench; go, gem; thin, this; sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = £ fate, f&t, fare,
amidst, what, fall, father; we, wSt, bere,. dun I- was -sal, s. [Gael, duin'uaaal, from
...
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The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the ...
Dunite is frequently more or less altered into gerpentine. in getting them
customers, as their common dunner* do duniwassal, duiuiiewassal (dun-i-was'al)
, n. in making them pay. Spectator. [Eepr. Gael, duin' uasal, a gentleman: duine, ...
William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith,
1914
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The Chambers Dictionary
[OFr donjon, from LL domnio, -onis, from L dominus a lord] duniewassal.
dunniewassal or duniwassal doon-i-wos'l. n a Highland gentleman of inferior
rank. [Gaelic duine man, and uasal of gentle birth] dunite tiitn'li, n crystalline rock
composed ...