or the curved part of a saddle, or of a ship; or to the arc-en-ciel; or to bended legs; or to the branches of trees; or to any recess of the sea shore; or in buildings in barns or windows; always means one and the same thing: viz. bended or curved: and is the past tense and therefore past participle of the Anglo-Saxon verb Bygan, flectere, incurvare. It will not at all surprise you, that this word should now appear amongst us so differently written as BOW, BOUGH, and BAY; when you consider that in the Anglo-Saxon, the past tense of Bygn was written Bogh, Bug, and Beah. "I se it by ensample in sommer time on trees, "The tabernacles were made of the fayrest "braunches and BOWES that myght be founde." Diues and Pauper, 3d còmm. cap. 4. "God badde the children of Israell take braunches "and BOWES of palme trees." Diues and Pauper, 3d comm. cap. 18. "All they BOWED awaye from goddes lawe." Diues and Pauper, 4th comm. cap. 13. "In tyme of tempest the BOWES of the tree bete "themself togydre and all to breste and fall downe.” Diues and Pauper, 4th comm. cap. 27. "He lept out at a BAY window euen ouer the "head where king Marke sate playing at the " chesse." Hist. of P. Arthur, 2d part, chap. 58, "They stoode talking at a BAY window of that “castle.” Hist. of P. Arthur, 2d part, chap. 68. They led la beale Isond where shee should stand, "and behould all the lusts in a BAY window." Hist. of P. Arthur 2d part, chap. 154. "Queene Gueneuer was in a BAY window waiting "with her ladies, and espied an armed knight." Hist. of P. Arthur, 3d part, chap. 132. "These ceremonies that partly supersticion, "partly auaryce, partly tyranny, hath brought into "the church ar to be eschuyed, as the sayng of priuat masses, blessing of water, BOWGH bread." Declaracion of Christe, by Iohan Hoper, cap. xi. "Or with earth "By nature made to till, that by the yearly birth "The large-BAY'D barn doth fill." Poly-olbion, song 3. "Adorn'd with many harb’rous BAYS.” Poly-olbion, song 23. BUXOм, in the Anglo-Saxon bog-sum, bocrum, buh-rum; in old English bough-some, i. e. easily bended or bowed to one's will, or obedient. "Yf ther were ony UN BUXOM childe that wold "not obeye to his fader and moder &c. god badde "that all the people of the cyte or of that towne "sholde slee that UNBUXOM childe with stones in "example of all other." "I Diues and Pauper 4th comm. cap. 2. praye you all that ye be BUXUM and meke "to fader and moder." Diues and Pauper, 4th comm. cap. 10. STOCK STUCK STAKE STEAK STICK All these (viz. poc, stac, sticce; STOK, STOK-EN, STUK, STAK, STIK, STICH) So variously written, and with such apparently different meanings, are merely the same past tense and past participle (differently spelled, pronounced, and applied) of the Anglo-Saxon verb rican, jrtician, to stick, pungere, figere: although our modern fashion acknowledges only STUCK as the past tense and past participle of the verb to stick, and considers all the others as so many distinct and unconnected substantives. We have in modern use (considered as words of different meaning) STOCK....Truncus, stipes, i. e. stuck: as log and post and block, before explained....." To stand like 66 a STOCK." STOCK....metaph. A stupid or blockish person. STOCK....of a tree, itself stuck in the ground, from which branches proceed. 66 STOCK....metaph. Stirps, family, race. Ony man born of the STOKE of Adam." Declaracion of Christe, by Iohan Hoper, cap. 7. STOCK....fixed quantity or store of any thing. STOCK....in trade: fixed sum of money, or goods, capital, fund. STOCK....lock; not affixed, but STUCK in. "The chambre dore anone was STOKE Gower, lib. 7, fol. 171, pag. 1, col. 2. STOCK....of a gun; that in which the barrel is fixed or stuck. STOCK....handle; in which any tool or instrument is fixed. STOCK....article of dress for the neck or legs. (See STOCKING.) STOCKS....a place of punishment; in which the hands and legs are stuck or fixed. "There to abyde STOCKED in pryson." Lyfe of our Lady, pag. 35. STOCKS....in which ships are stuck or fixed. STOCKS....the public funds; where the money of foolish persons is now fixed....... STOCKING....for the leg: corruptly written for STOCKEN, (i. e. stok, with the addition of the participal termination EN) because it was stuck or made with sticking pins, (now called knitting needles.) STUCCO....for houses, &c. A composition stuck or fixed upon walls, &c. STAKE....in a hedge; stak or stuck there. STAKE....to which beasts are fastened to be baited....i. e. any thing stuck or fixed in the ground for that purpose. STAKE....a deposit; paid down or fixed to answer the event. STAKE....metaph. Risque; any thing fixed or engaged to answer an event. STEAK....a piece or portion of flesh so small as that it may be taken up and carried, stuck upon a fork, or any slender sticking instrument. Hence, I believe, the German and Dutch stuck, stuk, to have been transferred to mean any small piece of any thing. STICK....(formerly written STOC) carried in the hand or otherwise; but sufficiently slender to be stuck or thrust into the ground or other soft sub stance. STICK....a thrust. STITCH....in needle work (pronounced CH instead of CK) a thrust or push with a needle: also that which is performed by a thrust or push of a needle. SгITCH....metaph. A pain, resembling the sensation produced by being stuck or pierced by any pointed instrument. The abovementioned are the common uses to which this participle is applied in modern discourse; but formerly (and not long since) were used STOCK....for the leg; instead of STOCKEN (Stocking.) STOCK....a sword or rapier, or any weapon that might be thrust or stuck. STOCK....a thrust or push. STUCK....a thrust or push. The abovementioned modern uses of this partiticiple stand not in need of any instances or farther explanation. For the obsolete use of it, a very few will be sufficient. Speed. Item, she can knit. What neede a man care for a STOCK with a wench, "when she can knit him a sroCKE." Two Gentlemen of Verona, pag. 31. "I did thinke by the excellent constitution of thy legge, it was form'd under the starre of a |