Dairymaid
31The Wild Goose Chase — is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first published in 1652. It is often classed among Fletcher s most effective and best constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it one of the brightest and most coherent of Fletcher s …
32Spencer Timothy Hall — (16 December 1812 – 26 April 1885), was a writer and mesmerist. He was born in a cottage near Sutton in Ashfield in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, the son of Samuel Hall a Quaker cobbler and Eleanor Spencer, a dairymaid. He received some… …
33dairy — /dair ee/, n., pl. dairies, adj. n. 1. an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made. 2. a shop or company that sells milk, butter, etc. 3. the business of a dairy farm,… …
34milkmaid — /milk mayd /, n. a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid. [1545 55; MILK + MAID] * * * …
35Mairi Hedderwick — at Wishaw library in 2007 Mairi Hedderwick (born 2 May 1939) is a Scottish illustrator and author, best known for the Katie Morag series of children s picture books set on the Isle of Struay, a fictional counterpart of the real life inner… …
36ghost — ghost1 [ goust ] noun count ** the spirit of a dead person that someone sees or hears: Do you believe in ghosts? the ghost of someone: The ghost of a murdered dairymaid is said to walk the farmyard at night. a/the ghost of something a slight sign …
37dairy — [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge, which came from the same Indo European base (*dheigh ) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady. In… …
38Maid of Orlach Possession — (1831) The most remarkable POSSESSION case from the files of the German mesmerist Justinus Kerner. The Maid of Orlach was a dairymaid over whom a White Spirit and a Black Spirit fought for control. The spirits were those of a sinning nun and a …
39dairy — (n.) late 13c., building for making butter and cheese; dairy farm, formed with Anglo Fr. erie affixed to M.E. daie (in daie maid dairymaid ), from O.E. dæge kneader of bread, housekeeper, female servant (see DEY (Cf. dey) (1)). The native word… …
40dey — {{11}}dey (1) O.E. dæge female servant, housekeeper, maid, from P.Gmc. *daigjon (Cf. O.N. deigja maid, female servant, Swed. deja dairymaid ), from PIE *dheigh to form, build (see DOUGH (Cf. dough)). Now obsolete (though OED says, Still in living …
