10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WITWALL»
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1
The Romaunt of the Rose
Usually identified as the modern witwall (URg et al.); but, as SK notes, "there is
often great confusion in such names." Thus UR glosses witwall a?, "Golden
Ousel, a Bird of the Thrush-kind"; TRg as "Widewael. Belg. Oriolus. ... a sort of ...
2
A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
WiVERN or □moodwaW" ; and in a later edition, 'a wittal or woedwakl If this be
so, we may be sure that allusions were made to the witwall similar to those
endless allusions to the cuckoô which produced the word cuckold. Witwall
represents ...
Walter W. Skeat, Walter William Skeat, 2005
3
Bishop Percy's folio manuscript: Ballads and romances
WOO wood, iii.81/139, furious wood/mil, i.383/922, ? witwall or golden ouzle.
Loriot (French) a Bird called a Wit-wal, Wood-pecker, or Greenfinch Phillips 1671
woodweete, ii.228/5, wodewale, bryd idem quod reynefowle or wodehake (or no-
...
Thomas Percy, John Wesley Hales, British Library, 1868
4
Observations of the naturalhistory of the swallowtribe: with ...
GENVS IX. *IYNX TORQVILLA. Wryneck, Emmethunter. GENVS X. PICVS
MARTIVS. Great Black Woodpecker. *PICVS MAIOR. Greater Spotted
Woodpecker, Witwall*. PICVS MINOR. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Witwall.
PICVS VILLOSVS.
Thomas Forster, Edward Forster, 1817
5
A system of universal geography: or A description of all the ...
The witwall (Galgulus garrtdus) □ of which the plumage is varied with tints of
blue, green and violet, is by no means rare in die southern departments ; among
others in the same part of the country, are the midwall (Mcrops apiaster),b
probably ...
Conrad Malte-Brun, James Gates Percival, Jean-Jacques-Nicolas Huot, 1834
Let this bird be denominated a witwall and the double application — to both
oriole and woodpecker — would obtain through the centuries to come. A
somewhat similar explanation is offered by E. M. Nicholson: "If the oriole was
ever sufficiently ...
University of Texas, 1954
Let this bird be denominated a witwall and the double application — to both
oriole and woodpecker — would obtain through the centuries to come. A
somewhat similar explanation is offered by E. M. Nicholson : "If the oriole was
ever ...
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The University of Texas Studies in English
Let this bird be denominated a witwall and the double application — to both
oriole and woodpecker — would obtain through the centuries to come. A
somewhat similar explanation is offered by E. M. Nicholson: "If the oriole was
ever sufficiently ...
9
Texas Studies in English
The present instance to the contrary, here by some in the group a whistling bird is
identified as a woodpecker, by others as an oriole. Let this bird be denominated a
witwall and the double application — to both oriole and woodpecker — would ...
University of Texas, 1952
Urry says “ Witwall, a golden ouzell." An ancient Gloss. in Rel. Ant. ii. p. 83. gives
“ lVollewale, l'oriol." Halliwell in his own Gloss. says Woodpecker. Panarnma.
Sros'rooss, Hannsnrs, BAYonn'rs. — The 'following note may be useful on these ...
