ERRATA. as VOL. 2. p. 238.-After the words, "the imperative put," add, pu't; q. e. put it, place it, take it; and necessarily implying let it go, place it from, away, or out of where it was before; and thus necessarily containing in a same term the import of adding to and taking from; in both which senses but is used. VOL. 2. p. 193.-The extract at the bottom of the page and the first line and half of the following, belong to the article DOG-CHEAP [p. 189], and are intended for the illustration of the verb to name. The article SHARPER appears at p. 64 and again at p. 181, but was intended for one article, and as separate propositions for the etymology of that term; of which I deem the first the true one. PET, for which two etymologies are suggested [vol. 2. p. 36, l. 9, and p. 156], belongs, I should think, to the last given. VOL. 2. p. 256, 1. 19, for Bearte read Beurte. Phrases and Sayings WHICH BY THEIR LITERAL FORM DO NOT BEAR OUT THE MEANING THEY ARE USED IN, AND TERMS NOT YET SATISFACTORILY ACCOUNTED FOR. HE BEARDED HIM TO THE FACE. HE addressed him in a tone of defiance; spoke to him in an unbecoming manner, in a voice which showed he meant insult; bellowed to him; miscalled him. Hij berd, heet hem toe, dij vee's; q. e. he roared out, called out to him, thou ar't a blackguard; he growled like a bear, told him, thee ar❜t a beast! Baeren, beren, baren, to make the noise of the bear when enraged, to roar like a wild beast; implying, in the person so acting, the adopting a beastly and offensive tone of voice in the view of insult and defiance. Heeten, to say, to call, to tell. Vee, cattle, beast, and, when applied to a person, a term of reproach and insult, corresponding to dirty fellow, low rascal, blackguard, one of the rabble; de la canaille. The phrase is sometimes shortened to to beard, in the sense of to insult, to defy, to oppose openly, to behave outrageously towards. Baeren, beren, is the verb of baer, bere, beyer [a bear], and carries the meaning of both to make the outcry of that animal, and to act like a bear in other regards. We say, his manners are bearish, in the sense of rough, boisterous, rude, beastly. Bear was once spelt bere with us. "She [Zenobia] was so swift that she anon them hent, And when that she was eldir, she would kill Lions, libardes, and BERIS all to rent And her armis welde 'em at her will."-CHAUCER. VOL. II. B. ON THE ARCHEOLOGY OF OUR POPULAR PHRASES, AND NURSERY RHYMES. BY JOHN BELLENDEN KER, Esq. Wat is de taal dan de innigste Redeneerkunst van hart end verstand A NEW EDITION. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. BIBLI LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & CO. AND COUPLAND, SOUTHAMPTON. 1837. 302 g 89. Want, daar wij de zaken-zelve niet dan door zekere hare hoedanigheden kennen, zoo moeten wij ons wel by het gene zij voor ons kennelijk hebben bepalen, en dus wordt in daad en wezen het voorwerp der Taal tot niets dan abstractien van hoedanigheden beperkt. BILDERDIJK. As we can only know things by their qualities, so is our conception things necessarily confined to that which is perceptible to us in them; and thus the object of all language is, in fact and essence, limited wholly and solely to ABSTRACTIONS of qualities. |