How To Use Cutch In A Sentence
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his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride.
The Seattle Times
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Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon.
MR STARLIGHT
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The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall.
Youth and Egolatry
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Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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Noted will be the northerners' scutching of UCD last weekend.
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
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It is only an ass like Justice Shallow, who would pitch upon the over-scutched tunes, which the carmen whistled, and try to pass them off as his FANCIES and his
Chronicles of the Canongate
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It retains not only its original octagonal stamped English brasses and ivory escutcheons but also most of its gray-blue paper drawer and cupboard lining.
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The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H. 3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Lockey makes the same point by transferring the family escutcheons to the yellow curtain on the left, where they become, in effect, emblems of folly.
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The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister.
V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
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Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon suitably blazoned with two tups horns and two cutty spoons.
Additional Note
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Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868.
Town Life in Australia
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Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race.
Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
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After this comes the scutching, or swingling, which is done by chopping with dull knives on a block of wood to take out the small pieces of bark which may still be sticking to the fiber.
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He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals.
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
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Made of rosewood with mahogany as the secondary wood, it includes brass stringing on the top and sides and an inlaid flush brass escutcheon and central brass plate.
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This can only mean that Martine McCutcheon must own a Burberry mac too, hence minus points.
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Nabokov, of course, would have taken delight in using "scutch"; I suppose I'd go with "I feel in my gut the Fate tugging the thread" for phonetic and associational reasons, but I would regret losing the specificity of the technical term.
Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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In February it is again manured and ploughed four or five times, and just before the sets are planted, some dung, four cart-loads to each cutcha beegah of low land, and five cart-loads to high land, are added.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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All shades of brown may be obtained by decreasing or increasing the amount of cutch or by adding a little logwood or fustic, in which latter case the cotton should have been previously mordanted.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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Having McCutcheon, a native of New Zealand, on the sidelines is crucial, said Richard Lambourne.
USA beats Russia to reach Olympic volleyball final
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The rye straw would be scutched or flayed during the long winter nights, sheafed and left ready for the thatcher.
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Philip the Bold, by having an inescutcheon of pretence on the centre of the arms of Margaret de Maele, first assumed by his father, John the
Illuminated Manuscripts
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scutcher," three or four laps at a time, one on top of another, to have still more beating and dusting.
Makers of Many Things
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He knew that on the highest floor a devil would tear the fiber asunder, that it would then go to the scutcher, and have the dust and dirt blown away, then that carding machines would lay all the fibers parallel, that drawing machines would group them into slender ribbons, and a roving machine twist them into a soft cord, and then that a mule or a throstle would spin the roving into yarn, and the yarn would go to the weaving-rooms, where a thousand wonderful machines would turn them into miles and miles of calico; the machines doing all the hard work, while women and girls adjusted and supplied them with the material.
The Measure of a Man
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Each chest has graduated drawers with solid, mahogany drawer fronts and original elaborate cast-brass pulls and escutcheons.
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In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs - and the English common soldiers are no better.
Fiancée
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On a mount vert a walnut tree, ppr.; on the sinister side an escutcheon pendent charged with the Arms of France, with a label of three points ar.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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A few years ago the terms catechu, terra japonica, and cutch were employed synonymously; they are now, however, for the most part used in trade somewhat distinctively, though not uniformly in the same sense.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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-- Since the first edition was published, I have been told by a late officer of the Ceylon Government, that many years ago, what remained of the Dutch records were removed from the record-room of the Colonial Office to the cutcherry of the government agent of the western province: where some of them may still be found.]
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat.
Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
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The specific meanings "whip" and "scutch" aren't actual, but something like "Today he has to spend the afternoon messing the hemp" would be a workable idiom if anyone actually used it.
Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip.
Bleak House
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The present locks and escutcheons are not original.
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To the left of the escutcheon was the figure of a woman, standing.
The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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a shield of arms, within an orb ar.sa. a spread eagle of the first bearing an escutcheon of pretence ar. a lion ppr. in chief in base a chev.gu. charged with three escallop shells of the first, impaling a saltire sa. between four crosses fitche of the same.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
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Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules.
Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
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Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Is it the unadorned simple man that you welcome to your bosom, or a thing of stars and garters, a patch of parchment, the minion of a throne, the lordling of twenty descents, in which each has been weaker than that before it, the hero of a scutcheon, whose glory is in his quarterings, and whose worldly wealth comes from the sweat of serfs whom the euphonism of an effete country has learned to decorate with the name of tenants? '
He Knew He Was Right
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These, a helpful warden explains, belong to those who blotted their escutcheons as often as not with a royal lady with whom they should not have and were stripped of their honours.
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It's refreshing to see Martine McCutcheon tackling Broadway standards and songs from the shows.
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Step across its threshold (beneath the royal escutcheon of Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain) and you brush against a time when these colonnades shaded both piety and intrigue.
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Holding out the word "government" as a kind of escutcheon to his people, it is Obama's message that his government is the ally not just of multicultural Democrats, as his opponents would have it, but the friend of all Americans.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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Nor was it hard to guess whose this must be, though not adorned by escutcheons, when the cross-roads to Harlowe-place were taken, as soon as it came within six miles of it; so that the hearse, and the solemn tolling of the bell, had drawn together at least fifty, or the neighbouring men, women, and children, and some of good appearance.
Clarissa Harlowe
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Punjab Sir D. Ibbetson says [81] that the Penja or cotton-scutcher is an occupational name applied to Telis who follow this profession; and that the Penja, Kasai and Teli are all of the same caste.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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Arleigh -- unvail the first blot on one of the noblest escutcheons in the land.
Wife in Name Only
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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And you, child, are marrying a kinsman of that abominable Duc de Raguse in order to regild our family escutcheon.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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Scutching precedes spinning (not immediately though as I understand); Clotho should have yarn ready for spinning (already scutched) at her disposal.
Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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Built in the late 19th century, this shingle-style home in Cutchogue, N.Y., features a library with a hidden door leading to an office known as the 'sanctum.'
Waterfront in Long Island
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How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir
Redgauntlet
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MRS BELLINGHAM: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs and alleged profound pity for my frostbound coachman Palmer while in the same breath he expressed himself as envious of his earflaps and fleecy sheepskins and of his fortunate proximity to my person, when standing behind my chair wearing my livery and the armorial bearings of the Bellingham escutcheon garnished sable,
Ulysses
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The cutcherry clerks and the police are with him everywhere; higher native officials are often on his side.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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E.g. pukka road, a macadam surface, cutch road, a mere track.
Fiancée
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In German and Scottish armory the inescutcheon bears the symbols of the paternal side, but in English heraldry it is used to carry the arms of an heiress wife.
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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So that of civil honour the fountain is in the person of the commonwealth, and dependeth on the will of the sovereign; and is therefore temporary, and called civil honour, such as magistracy, offices, titles, and, in some places, coats and scutcheons painted; and men honour such as have them, as having so many signs of favour in the commonwealth: which favour is power.
Chapter X. Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour, and Worthiness
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Honour is a mere scutcheon — and so ends my catechism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her whiter-than-white teeth caused Biden boosters in the theater to recoil in horror at this blot on Joe's enamel escutcheon.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
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And the terms "terra japonica and catechu" are hereby transferred from schedule D to schedule E, they being considered in commerce as the same articles of merchandize as cutch, which is enumerated in schedule E of said act.
The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Consti
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Add 6 oz. fustic or 1 oz. flavin to cutch bath, re-enter cotton.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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All baronets are entitled to display in their coat of arms, either on a canton or on an inescutcheon, the red hand of Ulster, save those of Nova
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Hero is here the proper name, for there was some contention, and the men who had titles crowd all others beneath their titles and escutcheons.
The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson.
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Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
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You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the silent movie The Snowman by Wallace McCutcheon, a chain-smoking snowman is swigging whiskey and appears in the rest of the film sloshed, inspiring a flogging by the townspeople.
Boing Boing
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Although apparently executed largely by Veronese's workshop, this picture bears in the central foreground an escutcheon placed on an imperial eagle, which might help identify the original patron.
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Fortunately my younger brother was able to remove this blot from the family escutcheon by joining the Canadian Army in 1941.
Remembering the Battle of the Atlantic
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This is one of those passages for which the editor of that review has merited an abatement in heraldry, no such writing ever having been written; and indeed, by other like assertions of equal veracity, the gentleman has richly entitled himself to bear a gore sinister tenne in his escutcheon.
Historical Documentation Concerning the Radical Piracy of _Wat Tyler_
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I first met him driving home from cutcherry in his buggy.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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A workman takes a hank in his hand and throws it into an opening in the lining case surrounding the scutching drum.
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The scutched flax is drawn through iron combs which still further open the fiber.
Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
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What had promised to be a splendid scandal looked like fizzling out like the dampest of squibs, and this damned baronet would walk away without a blot on his escutcheon ... or so it seemed to me just then.
Watershed
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Add 6 oz. fustic or 1 oz. flavin to cutch bath, re-enter cotton.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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Remove the faucet handles, escutcheons, shower heads, and spigots.
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I liked your Mr. Clyffurde and if it were not so late in the day and there was still time to give my opinion, I should suggest that Mr. Clyffurde's money could quite well regild our family 'scutcheon.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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The trappings of male finery included plumed helmets, heavy epaulettes, long swords, tassels, braid, knee-high boots, gleaming escutcheons, white gloves, white trousers.
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The dictionary says a scutcher is someone who separates the valuable fibers of, flax for example, from the woody parts by beating.
Give the Woman in the Bed More Porter
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In the centre is an inescutcheon bearing the Union Jack honouring the role of the military college and its alumni in defending King, Country and Empire in the various wars.
Archive 2007-01-01
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Made of highly figured mahogany it retains its original large brass handles and keyhole escutcheons.
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Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between D escallop shells in saltine or.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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We water-rotted our flax, broke it by hand, scutched it, picked the seed out of the cotton with our fingers; our mothers and sisters carded, spun, and wove it into cloth, and they cut and made our garments and bed-clothes, etc.
Great Fortunes and How They Were Made
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According to these orders, Robinson supplied fifty mortise locks, thirty-six pairs of octagonal glass knobs, twelve plain knob sets, and forty-eight escutcheons.
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The escutcheons are presented by a variety of actors and animals - wild men and women, dancers, lions, and so forth.
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
The Logophile « Write Anything
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He had a badge in his cap and on his arm a brassard with the royal escutcheon; he invariably honoured me with a stiff, military salute which increased my importance in the hotel at the expense of my reputation as an innocent and unofficial man of letters.
The Complete Stories
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Then it was scutched or swingled with a swingling block and knife, to take out any small particles of bark that might adhere.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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The brass plate and escutcheon are inlaid, and the interior includes an ebonized penholder, ivory grips, the original baize lining, and two original lead glass ink bottles.
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You must know that I once sowed a crop of flax in these parts and pulled it and scutched it and spent on it five hundred gold pieces; after which I would have sold it, but could get no more than this therefor, and the folk said to me, Carry it to
Arabian nights. English
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An undated price list refers to handles, escutcheons, plates, and hinges available in nickel-plate or gilt finishes.
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The account of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, for example, is the clearest and most informative short discussion that I have seen.
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The fair fame of Harvard is the possession of every son and daughter of Massachusetts, and the least stain that mars her escutcheon is the sorrow of all.
Gala-days
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In Zilla, North Mooradabad, 4,200 sets, each eight inches long, are inserted upon each cutcha beegah of low land, and 5,250 upon high land.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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Clack Row, "mentioned in the preceding extract from the minutes, and it is likely that there is some connection between the" escutcheon "ordered and his burial, i.e. it was, probably ordered for his coffin, he being" in extremis "at the time the
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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Yes, that's the first definition in my trusty Oxford: to scutch, swingle flax, hemp, etc.
Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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In those waste regions of oblivion, dusky banners and tattered escutcheons indicated the graves of those who were once, doubtless, “princes in Israel.”
Rob Roy
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Elizabeth McCutchen and a friend were walking to book club two weeks ago in quaint Farmville, Virginia, when they strolled by a home on First Avenue.
‘Horrorcore’ singer suspected in Virginia killings
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Once dry, it was again collected on drays, and back it went to the mill to be fed through a machine with wooden beaters, called a scutcher.
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Take four pair of calves feet, a knuckle of veal, a good fleshie capon, and prepare these things as is said in the crystal jelly: boil them in three gallons of fair water, till six quarts be wasted, then strain it in an earthen pan, let it cool, and being cold pare the bottom, and take off the fat on the top also; then dissolve it again into broth, and divide it into 4 equal parts, put it into four several pipkins, as will contain five pints a piece each pipkin, put a little saffron into one of them, into another cutchenele beaten with allum, into another turnsole, and the other his own natural white; also to every pipkin a quart of white-wine, and the juyce of two lemons.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery
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Is the handle a chrome lever or a reproduction brass handle with a hand-engraved escutcheon?
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“Peter” has a tawdry hall, smeared with the escutcheons of all nations, where music and waltzing whirl through the dense air, hour after hour; and what is at least of equal consequence to him, Peter holds a tavern in the next room, where spirits, beer, or coffee are equally at the command of the drouthy or the luxuriant.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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Over the solemn portals are ancient mystic escutcheons — vast shields of princes and cardinals, such as
The Newcomes
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In the centre are the arms and crest of Shakespeare, and on an escutcheon of pretence three stags 'heads caboshed.
Shakespeare's Family
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He gave the monumental facades along K Street and 15th Street elaborately detailed copper window architraves, stringcourses, cornices, and escutcheons.
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This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of southern California; he is the bar sinister on your escutcheon.
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The damn retting, spreading, scutching and finally the sale of the finished product always gave cause for instant celebration.
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Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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It was dark in the loft and the air was thick with the smell of rope and cutch and fish.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Then you 'scutch' it, which requires scraping the last of it away with a dull knife.
Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
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Six garlands hang from the west gallery on heart-shaped escutcheons and five bear the initials of the deceased and the date of his or her death.
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There were ballads to make the heart beat fast, and one little tragedy, _The Blot in the 'Scutcheon_, which, though not over-disposed to what he called sentimentality, I could not read without tears.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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But now, "he wagged his head again," these are cutch-sahibs, not pakka-sahibs — and the English common soldiers are no better.
Flashman In The Great Game
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An old grayheaded beadsman of the family talked to us of a blot in the scutcheon; and we had observed that the field of the arms was green instead of blue, and the lions ramping to the right, contrary to order.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Round the "autel des anges," richest of them all, is a row of eighteen niches, filled in with the figures of angels, holding alternately phylacteries and escutcheons; round the top is a cornice of thistle-leaves — on the cut stalk of one hangs a dew-drop perfect to nature.
Brittany & Its Byways
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General manager Neal Huntington says the trading frenzy is over, but more prospects are knocking on the door, some of whom are likely to follow the path blazed by McCutchen and Jones, who were called up in midseason last year.
Young Pirates past pleading for patience
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The dexter coat is dimidiated, with half of the inescutcheon and three and two halves of the cross crosslets visible.
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It is then dried and broken, and afterwards "scutched," and rendered still cleaner and finer by a process called "hackling.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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The dye-woods -- fustic, Brazil wood, bar wood, Lima wood, cam wood, cutch, peach wood, quercitron bark, Persian berries -- have since the introduction of the direct dyes lost much of their importance and are now little used.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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Above the doorway of the old hall was a carved escutcheon with a lion rampant, the Arms of the De Lacys.
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It also has common names such as couch grass, quitch grass, scutch grass, or scutch and twitch, or twitch grass.
Globe and Mail
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In the place where the breach was opened by his cannon he ordered the placing of a marble panel bearing his arms; and there it is to be seen to this day: Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
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Our dinner topics that night included retting, scutching, and hackling.
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There followed the imperial, French, Venetian, and Portuguese ambassadors, the clergy, and a small army of mourners carrying banners and escutcheons decorated with gold and silver.
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Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon.
MR STARLIGHT
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Dorsetshire, of the latter period, is of stone, the upper part worked in plain oblong panels; and a kind of escutcheon within one of these bears the date 1592; the lower part or basement of this pulpit is circular in form.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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There are sonework niches in the facade, and, over the doors, are escutcheons of stonework, emblazoned with...
Navel Gazing with the Lions
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These proportions can be varied according to the shade of grey required; the more iron makes the colour browner, the more cutch the bluer grey.
Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer
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Makem's "Lonesome Waters" album and it's written as scutcher.
Give the Woman in the Bed More Porter
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He holds up a ripped piece of cardboard, the escutcheon of his stockless trade.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are a number of dye-stuffs or colouring matters like alizarine, logwood, fustic, barwood, cutch, resorcine green, etc., which have no affinity for the cotton fibre, and of themselves will not dye it.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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As weaponry began to render body armor obsolete, coats of arms were scaled down and used on tunics and caps, still in the form of the escutcheon or shield.
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Of all those knights and baronets, lords and gentlemen, bearing arms, whose escutcheons are painted upon the walls of the famous hall of the
The History of Pendennis
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Large quantities of gambier are imported, under the corrupted name of cutch, into Calcutta, from Pegu.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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But here, in the context of the Fates and thread, it clearly takes on its primordial meaning, 'to scutch.'
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The closest thing to a blot on the Private Eye editor's escutcheon seems to be his failure to seek planning permission for alterations to his 16th century timber-framed home.
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If you have a swivel stud that threads into an escutcheon under the barrel channel use contact cement to secure the escutcheon, then when you screw the swivel stud into the escutcheon, use loctite #271 on the threads. aint nothin gonna unscrew, unless you want it to! ref: Brownells catalog, page 201To avoid slings slipping off your shoulder, get a LARGE button, 1 inch or so, sew it on with "spider wire" or similar wonder line.
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Then it was scutched or swingled with a swingling block and knife, to take out any small particles of bark that might adhere.
Home Life in Colonial Days
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After scutching, the settler would pull the flax through a board of sharp iron nails called a hackle or hatchel (see accompanying photograph) in order to untangle and smooth the threads.
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In this illustration the inescutcheon is shown over the impaled arms, whereas His Grace bears it only over the family arms; and the doves here are pictured sable rather than argent.
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Over the years chairs have lost casters or the casters have lost their leather wraps; chests are without pulls, escutcheons, and decorative mounts; and the hinges of secretary doors have vanished.
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An orle is a perforated inescutcheon, and usually takes the shape of the shield whereon it is placed.
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Finally the sheaves were beaten in a machine, in a process termed scutching.
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Inside was one of the long-missing wall escutcheons that someone had evidently pried off the palace.
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At the end of the scutching line, the cooperative uses five criteria to measure quality: oiliness, color, strength, fineness and homogeneity.
The Muddy Roots of Fine Linen
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In the case of the natural dye-stuffs -- logwood, fustic, Persian berries, Brazil wood, camwood, cochineal, quercitron, cutch, etc. -- which belong to this group of
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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[64] Gutierre de Cardenas was the first who pointed him out to the princess, exclaiming at the same time, "_Ese es, ese es_," "This is he;" in commemoration of which he was permitted to place on his escutcheon the letters SS, whose pronunciation in Spanish resembles that of the exclamation which he had uttered.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1
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Constant dinners, tiffins, pale ale and claret, the prodigious labour of cutcherry, and the refreshment of brandy-pawnee which he was forced to take there, had their effect upon Waterloo Sedley.
Vanity Fair
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Until 1917 (when the British royal family dropped German titles), the male-line descendants of Queen Victoria bore the arms of Saxony (for Prince Albert) on an inescutcheon over the royal arms.
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Gu. an inescutcheon arg. between D escallop shells in saltine or.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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Plenty of witnesses were forthcoming to give evidence against them; such can be purchased outside any cutcherry in India for a few rupees.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
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There is another verb scutch meaning 'to strike with a stick or whip, to slash, switch,' but although it is "not impossible" that this is "a transferred use of the verb meaning 'to dress by beating',... more probably the present verb is an independent onomatopic formation: cf. scotch vb.
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Yes, that's the first definition in my trusty Oxford: to scutch, swingle flax, hemp, etc.
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Courier, entitled "Confederate Flax," in which it is stated that Mr.D. Ewart, of Florida, had presented for exhibition "specimens of scutched fibre, and of cordage and twine of different sizes, made from the very common plant familiarly known as bear-grass, or Adam's needles.
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Written in Gothic letters of gold leaf, the composer's name on the portrait above his left shoulder recalls the style of the escutcheons of the knights of the Golden Fleece.
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Patches started to scutch about at the strange noise, but I held her in, and as the plane approached, I took off my hat and waved.
Half Broke Horses
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Heraldry — abatement, cadency, clarion, escutcheon, jessant-de-lys, rampant, talbot (I could go on for close to a thousand words as classical heraldry uses Norman French)
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He went to the cutcherry and enrolled himself as a _muktear_ (attorney) and soon the litigants and the magistrates found out how clever he was and he acquired a big practice.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
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It closed no lantern -- it obstructed no view -- and its light ribs, springing from voluted corbels, bore at each intersection, an emblazoned escutcheon, or painted heraldic device.
A Love Story
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They then scutched and hatcheled which was mainly to get off the shaff. Then they spun the inner part of the flax on a flax wheel.
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On the dexter and sinister sides, two demi-doctors, issuant of the second, and two cane heads, issuant of the third; the first having one eye, couchant, towards the dexter side of the escutcheon; the second faced, per pale, proper, and gules guardant.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
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Not to be confused with his teammate, second-year outfielder Andrew McCutchen, this control pitcher has averaged fewer than two walks per nine innings in compiling a 40-22 minor league record.
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It's cream colored and needlessly fancy, and, if you squint, you can make out the gold words reading "Lerner Shops" at the top of the building, at the center of green escutcheons on the left and on the right.
My Fair Relic
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Dexter, the sable bars of the House of Lenzol; Sinister, the Borgia bull in chief, and the lilies of France; and, superimposed, an inescutcheon bearing the Pontifical arms.
The Life of Cesare Borgia
