THE HINTS- VITAL TO SUCCESS

[Mindy]

@Mindy - So how would that word "daffodils" have been used in a sentence? Maybe in an eatery where the cook would ask someone else to hand him the "daffodils" ... meaning the butter & eggs?

Give me another obsolete word, if you can. I don't have that dictionary.

PS - We may be on to something important.

Let me grab me notes....I have a little time right now...

Butter-and eggs was the archaic term for a daffodil. It doesn’t say slang or how they used it. Here’s the book I’m looking at, and the entry (I just realaized I’m not in a Tapatalk, so I’ll add the pics in a few):





And here are some archaic meanings you probably won’t find online for other poem words (from volume one of this 2 volume set)

BRAVE:
1. Finely dressed, GOOD
2. A boast, a vaunt.
3. A bravo, a ruffian
4. WELL, in good health
5. A TROPHY

BUT:
This one had many definitions—I’ll include all of them to give folks an idea of the diversity of word meanings—
1. A peculiar kind of conical basket used for catching salmon.
2. A cast; a throw.
3. Contended or struggled with
4. A founder or place
5. Without, unless
6. A piece of ground, portion of a garden. Also the thick or fleshy part of a plant.
7. A shoemakers knife
8. A buttock of beef
9. Any large vessel or cart
10. Strong leather
11. “But and ben” the inner and outer part of only two rooms
12. A hassock
13. A beehive
14. Suddenly
15. A kind of cap
16. Rough or ragged
17. To exchange or barter.

CAN:
1. A milk pail
2. To know
3. To be able
4. Began to

COLD:
1. Could; knew
2. To grow cold
3. Sober; serious
4. Nothing to the point or purpose

DOWN:
1. A company of hares
2. To knock down, TO FALL
3. Sickly, poorly
4. Disconsolate, cast down
5. A HILL
6. Having one’s eye nearly blind
7. A BANK OF SAND.

FAR:
1. “I will not.”

HALT:
1. A shrub, a copse
2. Held, KEPT
3. A strong hamper, as used with a pack saddle
4. Animal deposit

HINT:
1. Seized, took
2. A cause or subject

And here’s one I think is pretty good:

A RICHARD-SWARY was a dictionary. (Riches old and. Ew?)
I’ll post some J-Z words later if anyone wants. And if anyone has a particular word you want me to look up, let me know.