This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... Children nave been smothered in bed by tie fare* iessness of nurses. Truster, Miners are often suffocated by damps. Aceocan (whence to choak) is to swell out the 'cheek, to cough. Throttle, more properly throttel, is the throat iu* *lrument, the larynx, or uvula; from this substantive derives the verb ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 edition. Excerpt: ... Children nave been smothered in bed by tie fare* iessness of nurses. Truster, Miners are often suffocated by damps. Aceocan (whence to choak) is to swell out the 'cheek, to cough. Throttle, more properly throttel, is the throat iu* *lrument, the larynx, or uvula; from this substantive derives the verb, which has corruptly assumed 9 frequentative form, le for el. At the upper extreme it hath no larynx, or throttel, to qualify the sound. Brown's Vulgar Errors DEGREES Strangle is the frequentative of stringere, to compress, to grasp. Stifle is the frequentative of to stop; the French etaufl'cr and etoupcr, whence our stifle and stop are both derived from etoupe or cttoupe (Latin stupa) 3 bunch of moss or tow, with -which the chinks of vessels are caulked or stopped. Smut, whence to smother, is tlie silth of a chimney. Smutty herrings, smutty hams, are such as have been smoke-dried. The inside is so smutted with dust and smoke, that neither the marble, silver, nor brass works show themselves. Addison, To smother is to cover, as with soot and ashes; hence an idea of concealment adheres to the word. Smother the embers that they may not burn out before our return. He must smother that scandalous anecdote, as he can. To suffocate is to put under fire (tub foco) and thence to destroy as lire-damps destroy. Flesh. Meat. Victuals. Flesh is the natural composition of an animal; meat is any kind of food, although commonly used f flesh-meat, or butcher's meat; victual is a ratio, *f provision, meat served in portions. The flesh *i a woodcock is an exquisitely delicate raeafe (c)rain is tke meat of birds Fish and vegetables, according to the Catholics, are the proper meats during Lent. He was not able to keep that place three days for lack o
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