10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FAINTY»
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Word Book of Virginia Folk-speech
Fail, v. To show signs of growing old. " He begins to faii." Fainty, adj. Faint; feeble;
languid; exhausted. " I feel very fainty." (2) Fainty. That causes a feeling of
faintness. ' ' These flowers have a fainty smell. ' ' Fair, v. To clear up; cease
raining: as ...
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The English Dialect Dictionary, Being the Complete ...
Cf. fainty. The weather be very faint, Rrports Prom'nc. (1885) 93. FAIN'I', see Fient
. FAJNTLY, adv. Sc. [fE'ntli.] Weak, faint. Lnk. Her feeble strength began fast to fail
; For want of warmth she faintly grew, EWING Poems (1892) 5. FAINTNESS ...
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The New England Journal of Medicine
Among the causes, therefore, which first suppress the bleedings from the uterus,
you may enumerate the fainty condition produced by the haemorrhage. A woman
losing two or three pints of blood, and being, perhaps, of hysterical diathesis, ...
Faint, fainty = close. Mrs. D , of Bridestowe, aged 86, used often to say, ' The
weather be very faint,' or, ' It be very fainty to day.'— April, 1885. W. H. M." Hal.
has fainty, languid (Gloucester). "Feeded for 'fed.' 'Cattle is feeded differently now.
Devonshire association for the advancement of science, literature, and art comm. on Devonshire verbal provincialisms, 1885
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The Southwestern Reporter
Where a cook employed in a hotel kitchen became overheated and fainty, and
stepped into the alley to get fresh air, fainted ... the fainty condition arose out of
employment and a causal connection between the employment and injury
appeared ...
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Report and Transactions
74. He also (p. 74) say Festuca Italica, or JEgilops Narbonensis, is " called in
English ' Hauer-grasse.' " Cotg. has " Aveneron : wild oats, barren oats, hauer, or
oat-grasse." " Faint, fainty = close. Mrs. D , of Bridestowe, aged 86, used often to
say ...
A woman losing two or three pints of blood, and being, perhaps, of hysterical
diathesis, she becomes very fainty, and under this tendency to deliquium
coacretions form, under which, together with that closure of the vessels which is
efl'ected by ...
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The principles and practice of obstetricy, as at present ...
Among the causes, therefore, which first suppress the bleedings from the uterus,
you may enumerate the fainty condition produced by the haemorrhage. A woman
losing two or three pints of blood, and being, perhaps, of hysterical diathesis, ...
James Blundell, Thomas Castle, 1834
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Survey English Dialects
Eng. => cave over, collapse. come over on a faint, dizzy, drop in a ruck, faint
away, faint off, faint over, fainty, flop out, giddy, go off, groggy, pass out, sile away,
stifle, swarf, swimmy, swimy, swoon, tawm over, topple over, tumble over, type
over, ...
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The Lancet London: A Journal of British and Foreign ...
Among the causes, therefore, which first suppress the bleedings from the uterus,
you may enumerate the fainty condition produced by the haemorrhage. A woman
losing two or three pints of blood, and being, perhaps, of hysterical diathesis, ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FAINTY»
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After the procedure the patient told Blundell that he felt better – "less fainty" – but two days later he died. Still, the experience convinced Blundell ... «Gizmodo, Jul 14»
Is it heart attack or just chest pain?
If you have really exerted too much on the heart, the heart will keep beating very fast and you'll feel fainty. Once you feel fainty, you have to stop ... «Free Malaysia Today, Apr 14»
Inside Ottawa: News and notes from Parliament Hill
Don confirmed this, saying needles make him sweaty, fainty, and turn red like a certain Canadian major city mayor. But, like Laurie, he says he overcame his fear ... «CTV News, Oct 13»
Gnarly 'Prometheus' Scene Blamed for Teen's Seizure & 6 Other …
Check out this list of barfy, fainty, seizure-y, or otherwise potentially unpleasant movies: Prometheus. I won't dish out any spoilers by describing ... «The Stir, Jun 12»
Grid girl: fainty
Grid girl: fainty. Grid girl faints onto Porsche racer. Man in Porsche literally can't be arsed to move. Lots of Other Men rush to help, ... «Top Gear, Jun 10»
Heart defect ignored for 23 years
... of eight when she collapsed at her primary school and was sent to hospital. She was diagnosed as "a fainty child" and sent back to school. «BBC News, Mar 08»
The woman who survived with a 4cm hole in her heart
Chided at school for being unfit and 'a fainty child', Ms Banks was thought to have epilepsy. Even when gym instructors were amazed to see ... «Metro, Mar 08»
