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 505
ch a serpent casts off at his periodical renovation; the part that separates from a foul sore.Slug, s. An idler, a drone; a kind of slow creeping snail; a cylindrical or oval piece of metal shot from a gun.Smell, v. To perceive by the nose ; to find out by mental sagacity.Smell, s. Power of… … The smelt derives its name from having, inthe opinion of some, the scent of a violet, ofothers, that of a cucumher; they are metwith in the seas that wash onr coasts the wholeyear, and seldom go far from shore, exceptwhen they ascend the rivers, which they dowith the tide ; and in certain of which…
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