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tittlebat
tittlebat (ˈtɪt(ə)lbæt) Also -back. A variant of stickleback, of childish origin. Hence tittleˈbatian a. nonce-wd., pertaining to tittlebats.1820 Keats & Hunt K.'s Wks. (1889) III. 34 They..follow the fish into cool corners, and say millions of ‘My eyes!’ at ‘tittle-bats’. 1837 Dickens Pickw. i, The...
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tiddler
▪ I. ˈtiddler1 [? Related to tittlebat and tiddly ‘little’.] Nursery name for a stickleback. Also applied to other small fish, as a minnow. Hence, a child; any small person or thing. So ˈtiddling vbl. n., fishing for ‘tiddlers’.1885 B. E. Martin in Harper's Mag. May 866/1 Them's tiddlers, they is. 1...
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Ten Thousand a-Year
The story chronicles events in the life of its iconic protagonist Tittlebat Titmouse and offers in-depth detail of English common law of the time.
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stickleback
stickleback (ˈstɪk(ə)lbæk) Forms: 5 stykylbak, 6 sticklebanke, -banck, 6–7 stickle bag(ge, 7 stit(t)le bag(ge, 8 stittle-back, 7–9 stickle-back, 7– stickleback. [f. OE. sticel prick, sting + back n.1 Cf. the synonymous banstickle, stanstickle, stickling, tittlebat, prickleback, -bag (N. Irel. sprick...
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Three-spined stickleback
most of the species range, and is the subspecies most strictly termed the three-spined stickleback; its common name in Britain is the tiddler, although "tittlebat
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Edward Richard Wright
At the Adelphi
At the Adelphi Wright made his first conspicuous success, in 1842, as Tittlebat Titmouse in Peake's adaptation of Warren's ‘Ten Thousand A portrait of Wright as Marmaduke Magog from a painting by Crabb is given in the ‘Theatrical Times,’ i. 225; one as Tittlebat Titmouse, engraved by Holl
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obligee
obligee (ɒblɪˈdʒiː) Also 6 oblyge, -lige. [f. oblige v.: see -ee.] 1. Law. One to whom another is bound by contract; the person to whom a bond is given. (Correlative to obligor.)1574 tr. Littleton's Tenures 104 b, If y⊇ oblyge..release to the obligor al actions. a 1625 Sir H. Finch Law (1636) 61 So ...
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who
▪ I. who, pron. (n.) (huː, unemphatic hʊ) Forms: 1–3 hwa, (1 hua), 2–3 hwo, hwoa, 2–4 wa, (2 wua, 3 whæ, wæ, wea, wah, hwoo, ȝwo), 3–5 hoo, 3–6 wo, 3–5, 6– Sc. wha, (4 huo), 4–6 ho, whoo, 4, 9 dial. whe, 5 woo, (Sc. vho, 5–9 dial. how, 6 hou, Sc. vha), 6–7 whoe, (9 Sc. whae), 3– who; 3–5 quo, (3 quu...
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