“The ’squires in scorn will fly the house
    For better game, and look for grouse.”—­Swift.

“Here’s an English tailor, come hither for stealing out of a French hose.”—­Shak.  “He, being in love, could not see to garter his hose.”—­Id. Formerly, the plural was hosen:  “Then these men were bound, in their coats, their hosen, and their hats.”—­Dan., iii, 21.  Of sheep, Shakspeare has used the regular plural:  “Two hot sheeps, marry!”—­Love’s Labour Lost, Act ii, Sc. 1.

   “Who both by his calf and his lamb will be known,
    May well kill a neat and a sheep of his own.”—­Tusser.

    “His droves of asses, camels, herds of neat,
    And flocks of sheep, grew shortly twice as great.”—­Sandys.

“As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout.”—­Prov., xi, 22.  “A herd of many swine, feeding.”—­Matt., viii, 30.  “An idle person only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth, like a vermin or a wolf.”—­Taylor.  “The head of a wolf, dried and hanged up, will scare away vermin.”—­Bacon.  “Cheslip, a small vermin that lies under stones or tiles.”—­SKINNER:  in Joh. and in Web.  Dict. “This is flour, the rest is bran.”—­“And the rest were blinded.”—­Rom., xi, 7.  “The poor beggar hath a just demand of an alms.”—­Swift.  “Thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.”—­Acts, x, 4.  “The draught of air performed the function of a bellows.”—­Robertson’s Amer., ii, 223.  “As the bellows do.”—­Bicknell’s Gram., ii, 11.  “The bellows are burned.”—­Jer., vi, 29.  “Let a gallows be made.”—­Esther, v, 14. “Mallows are very useful in medicine.”—­Wood’s Dict. “News,” says Johnson, “is without the singular, unless it be considered as singular.”—­Dict. “So is good news from a far country.”—­Prov., xxv, 25.  “Evil news rides fast, while good news baits.”—­Milton.  “When Rhea heard these news, she fled.”—­Raleigh. “News were brought to the queen.”—­Hume’s Hist., iv, 426.  “The news I bring are afflicting, but the consolation with which they are attended, ought to moderate your grief.”—­Gil Blas, Vol. ii, p. 20.  “Between these two cases there are great odds.”—­Hooker.  “Where the odds is considerable.”—­Campbell.  “Determining on which side the odds lie.”—­Locke.  “The greater are the odds that he mistakes his author.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 1.  “Though thus an odds unequally they meet.”—­Rowe’s Lucan, B. iv, l. 789.  “Preeminent by so much odds.”—­Milton.  “To make a shambles of the parliament