10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOZINESS»
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foziness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
Among the thousand- an d-one other 'ologiet of the day, we hear very few
accounts of the progress of ihcir favorite science. An ingenious person in
Edinburgh met with a Swedish turnip of mure than common foziness in his field ;
he made a ...
Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, 1843
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The turnip, Doctor Pna MULLION. .7 You haven't heard of it then? I'thought all the
world bad. You must know, however, that a certain ingenious person of this town
lately met with a turnip of more than common foziness in his field—he made a ...
I hac made nae change on my lickor sin' the Queen's Wake, and the time you first
dined wi' me in Ann Street— only I- hae gi'en up porter, which is swallin' drink,
and lays on naething but fat and foziness. _ - soar-n. I forget if you are a great ...
4
Knickerbocker, Or, New-York Monthly Magazine
An ingenious person in Edinburgh met with a Swedish tumip of more than
common foziness in his field ; he made a cast of it, clapped it to the cast of
somebody's face, and sent the composition to the Phrenological Society, with his
compliments ...
5
Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. ...
Foziness, s. 1. Sponginess, S. ; Diiffiness synon. 2. Metaph. obtuseness of mind. "
The weak and young Whigs have become middle-aged, and their foziness can
no longer be concealed, so we have no satisfaction now in playing with them at ...
I hae made nae change on my lickor sin' the Queen's Wake, and the time you first
dined wi' me in Anne Street—0nly I.hae gien up porter, which is swallin drink, and
lays on naething but fat . and foziness. , North. I forget if you are a great ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, James Hogg, 1868
I hae made nae change on my lickor sin' the Queen's Wake, and the time you first
dined wi' me in Anne Street — only I hae gien up porter, which is swallin drink,
and lays on naething but fat and foziness. North. I forget if you are a great ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1855
I hae made nae change on my liquor sin' the Queen's Wake, and the time you first
dined wi' me in Ann Street — only I hae gi'en up porter, which is swallin' drink,
and lays on naething but fat and foziness. North. I forget if you are a great ...
John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, 1854
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Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language: in which the ...
FOZINESS, s. 1. Sponginess, S. ; Dujfiness, synon. 2. Metaph. obtuseness of
mind. FRA, Fan, FBAE, prep, 1. From, S, Douglas. 2. From the time that. Barbour.-
A. S. Isl. fra, ab, (EX. Fas Tnm, adv. From the time that; forthwith; as soon as.
I hae made nae change on my lickor sin' the Queen's Wake, and the time you first
dined wi' me in Anne Street — only I hae gien up porter, which is swallin drink,
and lays on naething but fat and foziness. North. I forget if you are a great ...
John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, 1867
