10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REREMOUSE»
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reremouse in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
reremouse and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Reremouse (4th S. iv. 254.) — In the Manipulus Vocabidorum of the E. E. T.
Society's publications this word is rendered bat, from the A.-S. hrere-mus. Under
it is the note, " Reremouse, or backe which flyeth in the darcke, nycteris, ves-
pertilio.
William Newton. BATS. 107 mounted by a baton in bend of the first, is borne by
the name of Losada. I have not found these among English bearings. The
reremouse, or bat, which is a winged animal, though it is difficult to say whether a
bird or ...
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Bats: Biology, Behavior And Folklore
Reremouse. displaied. [i.e.,. with. spread. wings,. facing],. Sable,. by the name of
Baxter." Here there is probably a pun intended on the word bat or bakke and a
baker of bread. He adds: "Sometimes you shall find the bird borne in form of
some ...
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A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Reremouse,. Rearmouse,. a. bat. (E.) A.S. hriremüs, a bat; from the flapping of its
wings. — A. S, krimn, to agitate, allied to hrSr, adj., stirring, quick; müs, a mouse.
Cf. pro?. tl.ßimr.meuse, a fliitter-monse or bat And cf. Uproar, Щ Perhaps a ...
Walter W. Skeat, Walter William Skeat, 2005
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A Grammar of British Heraldry: Consisting of Blazon and ...
The Bat, or Reremouse, is borne by the families of Baxter, (Scotch,) — Stenynge,
(Somerset and Suffolk,) — Atton, — Inion, Lord of Kymwyd, (in Wales,) &c. The
coat of the Batesons also consists of three wings of a Bat. " The Egyptians (saith ...
William Sloane Sloane-Evans, 1854
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Theverbappears as Du. roeren, Swed. röra,Dan. röre, Icel.hræra, G.rühren, AS.
hrēran, OSax. hrōrian, to stir; andis thesame wordas rear or rere inE. rearmouse,
reremouse, a bat; see Reremouse. γ. The AS. hrēran, to stir, agitate, isfrom hrōr ...
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Grammar of British Heraldry
The Bat, or Reremouse, is borne by the families of Baxter, (Scotch,) — Stenynge,
(Somerset and Suffolk,) — Atton, — Inion, Lord of Kymwyd, (in Wales,) &c. The
coat of the Batesons also consists of three wings of a Bat. " The Egyptians (saith ...
William S. Sloane-Evans, 1854
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Eighteen Books of the Secrets of Art & Nature: Being the ...
Carda'l. i That one may not eepa Psellu: the Platonist saith, that Dogs, C rows,
and Cocks, will keep a man waking, so will the Nightingale and the Reremouse,
and the Owl; and of these, especially the ihead,heart and eyes; wheresore some
...
Johann Jacob Wecker, R. Read, 1660
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Encyclopaedia perthensis, or, Universal dictionary of the ...
(a) Reremouse. See Vespertilio. RERRICK, a parish of Scotland, in Kirkcud-
orightshire, ten miles long, and about fix broad ; seated on the coast of the
Solway Frith, at the mouth of the Urr ; and bounded on the N. by the mountain of
Bbncairn, ...
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Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise ...
Thus John Guillim in his Display of Heraldrie classifies the reremouse, or bat (a "
bird" which suckles its young), with other ''exorbitant Animals . . . those Creatures
formed or rather deformed with the confused shapes of Creatures of different ...
