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detail, back hinge area (binding waste ground; 90ºccw, levels 40 1.00 255) U California copy, Randle Cotgrave (-1634 *), comp., A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongves. Whereunto is also annexed a most copious Dictionairie, of the English set before the French, By R. S. L. (London, 1632) : via google books
mysterious tab, left open, unresolved these two weeks.
in a trice, with a whurry, and to the confusion
* front flyleaf, detail (90ºccw; inverted; levels 20 1.00 255) from a search for whurry, landing here — the definition of bacule — in Randle Cotgrave (d.1634, *), his A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (London, 1632) University of California copy, digitized October 14, 2011 opens to same entry (for bacule) in University of Ottawa copy at archive.org
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