10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOULDYWARP»
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The English dialect dictionary, being the complete ...
Lin.l MOULD, sb.a and 11.8 NM). Yks. Not. Lin. Rut. \Var. Bdf. Also in forms mo'd
s.Not. ; mode Not.; mohd, mohld n.Lin.I ; moud th.I w.Yks.I ; mowd e.Yks. [moud,
m5d.] l. sb. The mole, Talpa European. See Mouldywarp. Not. (J.H.B.) n.Lin.
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Lorenzo Da Ponte: The Life and Times of Mozart’s Librettist
Sheila Hodges follows him from the last glittering years of the Venetian Republic to the Vienna of Mozart and Salieri, and from George III’s London to New York City.
. But in this, as in all of his works, Miéville has that special knack for evoking other writers even while making the story wholly his own.”—Los Angeles Times On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he ...
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Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals
Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals Amy Leach. GLOSSARY OF
STRANGE BEASTS AND PHENOMENA Glossary MOULDYWARP Small
sightless animal; dwells complacently in the dirt;
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Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics
... earliermoltwerf 'earth thrower' (compare English dialect mouldywarp). The
same word turns up in one attested (but not established) instance in Danish as
muldhvalp (literally 'earth puppy'). Note also that folk etymology frequently leaves
part ...
Besides which, it was always worth seeing what black mouldywarp had tossed
out. Stooping, he flicked aside a few scraps of the usual red pot to pick out a
round bit of metal. He gave it a rub with his thumb and saw the familiar faint
outline of a ...
... the tumbled lump of malachite that's been lying on your garden table — its
seams of green are what azurite becomes when exposed to air, black-banded
but still bright as life. King Billy's Nemesis Mouldywarp, thrower of dirt, has tripped
the.
Mr. Firkin's bacon was delicious, and so was his home- made bread-and-butter,
and so was his tea "that thunderin' strong ye could trot a mouldywarp on it." After
breakfast Dido washed up for him, peeled potatoes for his dinner, •38•
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The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways
The mole (Talpa europaea), whose common name is probably a contraction of
the charming old name of moldwarp or mouldywarp, is not A purse made from
moleskin one of the gardener's friends. As well as creating unsightly molehills, ...
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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing ...
MOuldwARP, 1 Amol(| MOUlDYWARP, J Mouldy-band, s. An ant-hill. Northampt.
Mouldy-pudding, s. A slattern. Yorksh. Moule, v. (1) To become mouldy. (2) To dig
. Devon. Moultiire, *. (A.-N.) A fee for grinding corn. Moun, pres. t. pi. (A.-S.) May ...
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Exclusive extract: John Lewis-Stempel's Meadowland
... the light from my torch startles the mouldywarp, which stops and sniffs with its snout. The little miner's humanish hands are still in supplication ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
