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Excerpt from A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions The third are mere arbitrary words, not deducible from any primary fource or lan guage, but ludicrous nominations, from fome apparent qualities in the obje t or thing, at firfi fcarcely current out or the parifh, but by time and ufe extended over a whole county. Such are the Church-warden, Jack iharpnails, Crotch-tail, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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