_Variations du Langage Francais_, p. 347.

{213} ['Hoyden' seems to be derived from the old Dutch _heyden_, a
heathen, then a clownish, boorish fellow.]

{214} [This "ancient Saxon phrase", as Longfellow calls it, has not been
found in any old English writer, but has been adopted from the
Modern German. Neither is it known in the dialects, E.D.D.]

{215} "A _furlong_, quasi _furrowlong_, being so much as a team in
England plougheth going forward, before they return back again".
(Fuller, _Pisgah Sight of Palestine_, p. 42.) ['Furlong' in St.
Luke xxiv, 13, already occurs in the Anglo-Saxon version of that
passage as _furlanga_.]

{216} [Recent etymologists cannot see any connexion between 'peck' and
'poke'.]

{217} [e. g. "One said thus _preposterously_: 'when we had climbed the
clifs and were a shore'" (Puttenham, _Arte of Eng. Poesie_, 1589,
p. 181, ed. Arber). "It is a _preposterous_ order to teach first
and to learn after" (_Preface to Bible_, 1611). "Place not the
coming of the wise men, _preposterously_, before the appearance of
the star" (Abp. Secker, _Sermons_, iii, 85, ed. 1825).]

{218} Thus Barrow: "Which [courage and constancy] he that wanteth is no
other than _equivocally_ a gentleman, as an image or a carcass is
a man".

{219} Phillips, _New World of Words_, 1706. ['Garble' comes through old
French _garbeler_, _grabeler_ (Italian _garbellare_) from Latin
_cribellare_, to sift, and that from _cribellum_, a sieve,
diminutive of _cribrum_.]

{220} "But his [Gideon's] army must be _garbled_, as too great for God
to give victory thereby; all the fearful return home by
proclamation" (Fuller, _Pisgah Sight of Palestine_, b. ii, c. 8).

{221} [Compare the transitions of meaning in French _manant_ = (1) a
dweller (where he was born--from _manoir_ to dwell), the
inhabitant of a homestead, (2) a countryman, (3) a clown or boor,
a coarse fellow.]

{222} [These words lie totally apart. 'Brat', an infant, seems a
figurative use of 'brat', a rag or pinafore, just as 'bantling'
comes from 'band', a swathe.]

{223} "We cannot always be contemplative, or _pragmatical_ abroad: but
have need of some delightful intermissions, wherein the enlarged
soul may leave off awhile her severe schooling". (Milton,
_Tetrachordon_.)

{224} [Anglo-Saxon _cnafa_,