...lexicogjaphic remark as follows : "Le Тле. dit petit A. a eu ce malheur" Dr. Johnson defines oats as "a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." A Puritan is "a sectary pretending to eminent purity of religion." A Whig is "the name of a laction,"...

...a boy, not a beast." . . "CoiruH, A convulsion of the lungs, vellicated by some sharp serosity." " OATS, A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.'' In 1758, on Saturday, April 15, appeared the first number of Ihe Idler, which was issued on Saturdays...

...us, To see oorsels as it hers see us.' APROPOS of the great lexicographer's definition of oat-s as ' a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people,' somebody (doubtless a patriotic Scot) is credited with the observation that while one country turned...

...be remembered that the term " wealth " involves, somewhere in its wide circuit, the conception 1 " Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." — Johnson's Dictionary. a A fall in the loaf, eg from sixpence to fourpence, scarcely increases its...

...spirit of humor and mischief. " Lexicographer " he denned as " a harmless drudge; " and " oats " as " a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." 2 Francis Junius (1589-1677), student of the Teutonic languages. 3 Dr. Stephen Skinner (1623-67), lexicographer....

...anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections; Oats, a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people; Whiy, the name of a faction. Published a semi-weekly, the Rambler, 1750-52; lost his wife, 1752; contributed...

...Sir, old Mr. Sheridan has found out a very good reason! '" The definition of oats referred to was: "A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." 12 9. The opposition. The party in Parliament opposed to the Ministry. 12 14. That noble poem in which...

...Sir, old Mr. Sheridan has found out a very good reason! '" Tho definition of oats referred to was: "A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." 12 9. The opposition. The party in Parliament opposed to the Ministry. 12 14. That noble poem in which...

...everything Scottish, or Scotch as he would have spelt it, in his famous Dictionary defined oats as "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Probably this was " wrote sarkastic," though it was, after all, only partially correct; it awoke, however,...

...are generally substituted for it. Hence the definition of oats given by the great lexicographer : " A grain, which in England is generally given to horses; but in Scotland supports the people." One reason why wheat does not succeed well in these localities is the great vigor of the grasses in...