"
_Wither's Shepherd's Hunting_, p. 430. ed. 1633.
On l. 165. (G.):--
"Sigh no more, ladies; ladies, sigh no more."
_Shakspeare's Much Ado_, ii. 3.
On l. 171. (G.):--
"Whatever makes _Heaven's forehead_ fine."
_Crashaw's Weeper_, st. 2.
J.F.M.
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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.
_Depinges_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 20. p. 326.).--I have received
the following information upon this subject from Yarmouth. Herring
nets are usually made in four parts or widths,--one width, when they
are in actual use, being fastened above another. The whole is shot
overboard in very great lengths, and forms, as it were, a wall in
the sea, by which the boat rides as by an anchor. These widths are
technically called "_lints_" (Sax. lind?); the uppermost of them
(connected by short ropes with a row of corks) being also called the
"_hoddy_" (Sax. hod?), and the lowest, for an obvious reason, the
"_deepying_" or "_depynges_," and sometimes "_angles_."
At other parts of the coast than Yarmouth, it seems that the uppermost
width of net bears exclusively the name of _hoddy_, the second width
being called the first _lint_, the third width the second lint, and
the fourth the third lint, or, as before, "depynges."
W.R.F.
_Laerig_.--Without contraverting Mr. Singer's learned and interesting
paper on this word (No.
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