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Mob A contraction of the Latin mobile vulgus (the fickle crowd). The term was first applied to the
people by the members of the Green-ribbon Club, in the reign of Charles II. (Northern Examiner, p.
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And for a *lot of info, including how to grow and market foxglove :
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/f/foxglo30.html
which also has a link to a medical (?) site on ntidotes
Interesting link indeed. I didn't scan every word, but the only date I saw was 1922. We've come a long way since then!
The biggest problem with herbal preparations - and antidotes - is that we just don't know what's in them. They aren't standardized, not even Digitalis Leaf. The more esoteric ones probably have many active ingredients, and we have no confidence that one pill is the same as the next, even out of the same bottle. Or whether there isn't something else in there besides what we think we want. Not to mention how any of the known or unknown ingredients may interact with the more standard nostrums our allopathic physicians may have prescribed, or anything else we may be taking.
As you may conclude I don't feel very secure with people taking alternative remedies, even "natural" ones, for a variety of reasons...
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Morgue a dead-house, is generally associated with mors (death). but this is a blunder, as the word means
visage, and was first applied to prison vestibules, where new criminals were placed to be scrutinised, that
the prison officials might become familiar with their faces and general appearance.
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Mosaic Work is not connected with the proper name Moses, but with the Muses (Latin, opus muscum,
musium, or musivum; Greek, mouseion; French, mosaique; Italian, mosaico). Pliny says it was so called
because these tesselated floors were first used in the grottoes consecrated to the Muses (xxxv. 21, s. 42).
The most famous workman in mosaic work was Sosus of Pergamos, who wrought the rich pavement in
the common-hall, called Asaroton oecon. (Pliny: Natural History, xxxvi. 4, 64.)
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Mother Goose A name associated with nursery rhymes. She was born in Boston, and her eldest daughter
Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet, the printer. Mrs. Goose used to sing the rhymes to her grandson, and
Thomas Fleet printed the first edition in 1719.
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Mow a heap, and Mow, to cut down, are quite different words. Mow, a heap, is the Anglo-Saxon mowe,
but mow, to cut down, is the Anglo-Saxon máw-an.
To cut grass is to mow, rhymes with bow and arrrow. When the grass has been cured it is stored
in a part of a barn called a "mow" rhymes with "now".
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Munchausen (Baron). The hero of a volume of travels, who meets with the most marvellous adventures.
The incidents have been compiled from various sources, and the name is said to have pointed to
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, a German officer in the Russian army, noted for his
marvellous stories (1720-1797). It is a satire either on Baron de Tott, or on Bruce, whose Travels in
Abyssinia were looked upon as mythical when they first appeared. The author is Rudolf Erich Raspe, and
the sources from which the adventures were compiled, are Bebel's Facetiæ, Castiglione's Cortegiano,
Bildermann's Utopia, and some of the baron's own stories.
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N This letter represents a wriggling eel, and is called in Hebrew nun (a fish).
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She was born in Boston, and her eldest daughter
Elizabeth married Thomas Fleet, the printerNot according to this, Bill: http://www.librarysupport.net/mothergoosesociety/who.htmlSounds like there is some debate on this one! I recently saw a performance of a pantomime called Mother Goose, and I assumed the story to be the origin of the name (i.e. "Mother Goose" was just another fairy tale). It was closely allied (no surprise) with the story of "the goose that laid the golden eggs". However, I reckon the pantomime is a fairly modern creation that just reuses the (very old) name.
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