of his wrist; the old Pecht snaps
the bar of iron in two with his fingers, remarking quietly to the astounded
spectators, that "it is a gey bit gristle, and has not much pith in it
yet." The story is told in the second volume of Chambers's _Edinburgh
Journal_, first series, I think; but I have not the volume at hand to refer
to. The similarity between the two legends is curious and interesting.

FRANCIS ROBERT DAVIES.

* * * * *

ARCHAIC WORDS.

(Vol. vii., p. 400., &c.)

The following list of words, which do not appear in Mr. Halliwell's
_Dictionary of Archaic Words_, may form some contribution, however small,
to the enlargement of that and of some of our more comprehensive English
dictionaries. It falls in with the desire already expressed in "N. & Q.;"
and, if the present paper seem worth inserting, may be followed by another.
In some few cases, though the word does appear in Mr. Halliwell's columns,
an authority is deficient; instances having as it were turned up, and in
rather uncommon sources, which seemed occasionally worth supplying. It must
be observed that the explanations given are, in some instances, mere
conjectures, and await more certain and accurate interpretation.

_Aege_, age. _The Festyvall_, fol. cxii. recto, edit. 1528.

_Advyse_, to view attentively. Strype's _Memorials_, under MARY, ch.
xxviii. p. 234., folio, or vol. iv. p. 384. edit. 1816.

_Apause_, to check. Foxe, _Acts and Monuments_, vii. 647.; and
Merchant's _Second Tale_, 2093.

_Assemble_, to resemble. Bale's _Image of both Churches_, Part II. p.
378., edit. 1849.

_Beclepe_, to embrace. _The Festyvall_, fol. xxxvi. recto, edit. 1528:
"The ymage--becleped the knyght about the necke, and kyssed hym."

_Bluck_, ...(?) "So the true men shall be hunted and blucked."--_The
Festyvall_, fol. xxvi. recto.

_Boystously_, roughly. "Salome--boystously handled our Lady."--_The
Festyvall_, fol. lxvii. verso.

_Brince_, to introduce, hand out, _propino_. "Luther first brinced to
Germany the poisoned cup of his heresies."--Harding in Bishop Jewel's
_Works_, vol. iv. p. 335., edit. Oxford, 1848.

_Bussing._ "Without the blind bussings of a Papist, may no sin be
solved."--Bishop Bale's _Image of both Churches on the Revelation_, ch.
xiii. p. 431., edit. Cambridge, 1849.

_Croked._ A curious application of this word occurs in _Th