Excerpt from Leaves From a Word-Hunter's Note-Book: Being Some Contributions to English Etymology It should be understood that, notwithstanding my acknowledged obligations, many of the deriva tions here adopted are now advanced for the first time, and differ from the conclusions arrived at by previous writers. In most cases, I have adduced copious illustrations from all periods of our litera ture, and confirmatory proofs from the cognate languages, either in the way of verbal parallels or analogous usages. In a few instances, where the evidence for two conflicting etymologies seemed almost equally balanced, I have stated both sides of the question without prejudice, and left the decision to others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.