a farm servant
11Hind — Hind, n. [OE. hine, AS. h[=i]ne, h[=i]na, orig. gen. pl. of h[=i]wan domestics; akin to Icel. hj[=u] man and wife, domestics, family, Goth. heiwafrauja master of the house, G. heirath marriage; cf. L. civis citizen, E. city or E. home. Cf. {Hide} …
12Murdoch Grant — (died March 19, 1830) was an English itinerant peddler and murder victim of which the unusual circumstance regarding the capture of the murderer resulted from a local tailor who claimed to have witnessed the events in a dream. During the spring… …
13dairy — [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge, which came from the same Indo European base (*dheigh ) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady. In… …
14dairy — [13] Etymologically, a dairy is a place where a female kneader of bread works. The term for such an operative in Old English was dǣge, which came from the same Indo European base (*dheigh ) as produced dough and the second syllable of lady. In… …
15Tom Devine — Professor Tom M Devine (Thomas Martin Devine) OBE FRSE FBA (born Motherwell, Scotland 1945) is a Scottish historian. His main research interest is Scottish history since c.1600. He is widely regarded as the pre eminent authority on the history of …
16Lo-Johansson, Ivar — ▪ Swedish author in full Karl Ivar Lo johansson born Feb. 23, 1901, Ösmo, Sweden died April 11, 1990, Stockholm Swedish writer and social critic who in more than 50 “proletarian” novels and short story collections depicted the lives of… …
17villain — [vil′ən] n. [ME vilein < OFr vilain < VL villanus, a farm servant < L villa, a farm: see VILLA] 1. a person guilty of or likely to commit great crimes; evil or wicked person; scoundrel 2. a wicked or unprincipled character in a novel,… …
18Henry Mosley — was a first class cricketer who played two matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1881 and another for T Emmett s XI v Alfred Shaw s XI at Bradford in the same year. He made his Yorkshire debut against Kent at Mote Park in Maidstone and… …
19Ann Moore — Infobox Person name = Ann Moore image size = caption = from a later report birth date = 31 October 1761Dictionary of National Biography] birth place = Rosliston in Derbyshire death date = 1813 death place = Tutbury education = occupation =… …
20villain — /vil euhn/, n. 1. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. 2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot. 3. villein. [1275 1325; ME vilein,… …
