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QUAGMIRE , a See also:bog or See also:marsh, a piece of ground so saturated with See also:water that it cannot support any See also:weight. The word is composed of " quag " or " quake " (O.E. cwacian; cf. " quaver," " See also:quiver ") and " mire, " mud (Icel. myri, Swed. myr).
See also:Skeat suggests that quag may be connected with the See also:root seen in " See also:quick," and quotes (Etym. Dict. 1898) Piers Plowman, c. xxi. 64, of an See also:earthquake, the See also:earth " quook as it quyke were," i.e. shook as if it were alive.traced to the See also:Highlands; it was not until the end of the 17th See also:century that they became popular in such large centres as See also:Edinburgh and See also:Glasgow. The silversmiths of such See also:local See also:gilds as See also:Inverness and See also:Perth frequently mounted them in See also:silver, as may be seen from the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall-marks on the existing examples. They are found, of silver and See also:pewter, in use as communion cups in various parts of See also:Scotland; four, with the Edinburgh hall-See also:mark for 1722, belong to See also:Ayr See also:parish See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church; and a large one with the same hall-mark for 1663–1684 is used as an See also:alms-dish at Alvah, See also:Banffshire. The loving See also:cup at See also:Donaldson's See also:hospital, Edinburgh, is a large silver .See also:quaich, with the Edinburgh See also:stamp for 1724, which belonged to the founder of that hospital. The finest collection of these vessels is in the See also:possession of the See also:marquess of See also:Breadalbane. (E. A.
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