This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...for foreign goods, in the days of King Ethelred: see the Instiluta Lundonice, in Thorpe's Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, p. 127. birlester (689), birlster (689), birlesteris, plur. (689). Engl. Abirlster, birlsters. This name, given to hucksters or retailers of victuals from door to door, appears to be of but ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...for foreign goods, in the days of King Ethelred: see the Instiluta Lundonice, in Thorpe's Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, p. 127. birlester (689), birlster (689), birlesteris, plur. (689). Engl. Abirlster, birlsters. This name, given to hucksters or retailers of victuals from door to door, appears to be of but rare occurrence; it is probably to be met with only in the City books, temp. Edward III. bis. Fr. Brown. (264.) Applied hero to bread made of coarse meal, and known as 'trait' or 'trete.' M. Michel is of opinion (Recherches sur les Etoffes de Soie, etc. i. p. 176, n. pp. 10-13), that in some instances, where this adjective appears in conjunction with another adjective denoting colour, it is the Latin adverb ' bis, ' and means in such cases 'twice 'dyed, ' the same as the 'dibapha' of the ancients. The expression 'pourpre bis, ' for example, he takes to mean a purple doubly rich. It seems, however, at least equally probable that the meaning is, a purple shot with a sombre colour, brown, black, or grey; similar to the expression "medley "brune and porre colour " (whatever 'porre' may mean), quoted in Herbert's Hist. Twelve Liven/ Comp. i. p. 64. The same remark will apply to the numerous passages quoted by Halliwell, Diet. Arch. pp. 177, 178. As to the colour called 'byce' (Prompt. Parv. p. 35), or rather ' blue byce, ' Mr. Way is of opinion that it was "a preparation of zafFre, of a dim "and brownish cast of colour, in "comparison with the brilliancy "of the true azure." According to a Note in Liber Horn, fol. 249 b., 'bis' was a name given to the fur on the back of the squirrel in winter, evidently meaning brown. See the Glossary to Liber Custum. p. 700, s. v. Bisset. See Bissus. bislethe (375). The meaning ...
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