- autem diver
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Pickpockets who practice in churches; also churchwardens and overseers of the poor.
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Adam Tiler — noun A pickpockets accomplice, who takes the stolen goods and leaves with them. (1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue) In the same way as I got this, showing a handful of silver, by turning autem diver, or, if you like it better, my Adam tiler … Wiktionary
LANA — ex Gr. λῆνος post pelles, in vestium usum cessit: Hinc togae, tunicae, lacernae, et reliqua Quiritium vestimenta non nisi a pretio lanae auta colore Scriptoribus commendara legimus. Plin. l. 8. c. 47. Magna, inquit. et pecori gratia vel in… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
TINTINNABULUM — a tinnitu, quem, dum pulsatur, edere solet, nomen nactum est: Tinnitus autem est aeris: unde ex aere primum, mox ex aere, stanno, plumbo argentoque nonnumquam admistis, fieri consuevêre Tintinnabula, magni inter homines usus, sive profana, sive… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
GEMINI — unum ex XII. Zodiaci signis, Graecis Δίδμυοι, receptiori Astrologorum opinione sunt Tyndaridae sive Ledaei Iuvenes, Castor et Pollux, quos, ut Hygin, ait Poet. Astronom. c. de Geminis, Iuppiter inter notissima sidera constituisse existimatur;… … Hofmann J. Lexicon universale
