The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 158
a hack cub-hunting, which after all is butor who has a regard for his neck, or his horse, I a melancholy recreation. Cube, s. A regular small body, consisting of six squai-e and equal faces or sides, and the angles all right, and therefore equal.Cubebs, s. A very efficient pepper. It has been… … Cuckoo, or Gowk.—(Cuculus Canorus,Linn.; Le Coueou, Buff.)—Length fourteeninches, breadth twenty-five ; its bill is blackand somewhat bent; eyes yellow; inside ofthe mouth red; its head, neck, back, andwing coverts are of a pale blue, or dove colour,Which is darkest on the head and back, andpalest…
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