10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOWDIEWART»
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mowdiewart in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Norse moskvi, Swed. maska, Dan. maske, Ger. masche. Compare Spinner-mesh,
a Cleveland word for the spider's web. • Mowdiewart is a corruption of moldiwarp
the mole used by the Ettrick shepherd in the Nodes Ambrosiance, vol. i. p. 68.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
A candle immediately appeared in the hand of a middle-aged countrydemsel,
who started out from a door on my right 5 and Geordy Mowdiewart the
ploughman, who was the person who spoke, seized a grape, (dung-fork,) and
came up to my ...
... and when the rain water had ance sypit that length, it ran clear off the land, and
came out as clean as if it had been out of a mowdiewart hole in unbroken lea. For
stiff land there's nae draining spade like a good Scots pleugh and four cattle in ...
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The gift of friendship; a present for all seasons
You never saw sic an eternal snuffer as he was: the neb o' his nose was aye as
black as a mowdiewart's ; and I have heard Hosea Rappee, the tobacconist,
affirm that though the minister, honest man, liked his pinch as weel's his
neighbours, ...
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The Edinburgh monthly magazine [afterw.] Blackwood's ...
A candle immediately appeared in the hand of a middle-aged country damsel,
who started out from a door on my right ; and Geordy Mowdiewart the ploughman
, who was the person who spoke, seized □ grape, (dung-fork,) and came up to
my ...
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L'allegro; or Tales for hut and hall
You never saw sic an eternal snuffer as he was: the neb o' his nose was aye as
black as a mowdiewart's ; and I have heard Hosea Rappee, the tobacconist,
affirm that though the minister, honest man, liked his pinch as weel's his
neighbours, ...
You never saw sic an eternal snuffer as he was: the neb o' his nose was aye as
black as a mowdiewart's; and I have heard Hosea Rappee, the tobacconist, affirm
that though the minister, honest man, liked his pinch as weel's his neighbours, ...
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The Roxburghshire Word-Book
E. moughte, etc.] MOWDIEWART, sb. G. A mole; a mowdie. [= med. Sc.
mowdewart z—med. E. moldewarp “mould-thrower.”] MOWLEE, sb. w. A
squabble. [Cf. F. melee] IMOWSEN'T, a. 1. Of food, etc.:Stale, fusty;
somewhatmouldy. N, W—S. 2.
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New Zealand Aberdeen Angus Herd Book
Dam— Meg Dodds— 1 P „ Mowdiewart— 686* 2nd „ Sophia— 1978* „ Darby—
377* Dam Meg Dodds (I P) imported in the T. E. Millcdge in 18C3; was
purchased from and bred by Mr. William McCombie, Tillyfour, and considered at
the time of ...
New Zealand Aberdeen Angus Cattle Breeders' Association, 1919
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The Chambers Dictionary
Same as mahua mowdiwart. mowdiewart mowdiwort and mowdie- wort. Scots
forms of mouldwarp. mown. See under mow3 mowra Sec mowa moxa mok'.i:>, n
the leal down of any of several wormwoods (esp Artemisia mo\a). or sunflower
pith ...
