Difference between revisions of "Welsh"
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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_194573" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_194573" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The language of Wales, or of the [[Welsh]] people. </p> <p> (3): (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales. </p> <p> (4): (v. t. & i.) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. </p> <p> (5): (v. t. & i.) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; - said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) The language of Wales, or of the [[Welsh]] people. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t. & i.) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' v. t. & i.) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; - said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81317" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81317" /> == | ||
Latest revision as of 19:08, 15 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
(2): ( n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
(3): ( n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
(4): ( v. t. & i.) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation.
(5): ( v. t. & i.) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; - said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
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Scottish divine, a Nithsdale man; became Presbyterian minister of Ayr, and was distinguished both as a preacher and for his sturdy opposition to the ecclesiastical tyranny of James VI., for which latter he suffered imprisonment and exile; he was an ancestor of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and was married to a daughter of John Knox, who, when the king thought to win her over by offering her husband a bishopric, held out her apron before sovereign majesty, and threatened she would rather kep (catch) his head there than that he should live and be a bishop; she figures in the chapter in "Sartor" on Aprons, as one of Carlyle's apron-worthies (1570-1625).
