HILL, mons, collis.  A.S. [Anglo-Saxon:  hyll].  Quod videri potest abscissum ex [Greek:  kolonae] vel [Greek:  kolonos].  Collis, tumulus, locus in plano editior.  Hom.  II.  B. v. 811. [Greek:  esti de tis proparoithe poleos aipeia kolonae].  Ubi authori brevium scholiorum [Greek:  kolonae] exp. [Greek:  topos eis hupsos anaekon geolofos exochae].

NAP, to take a nap.  Dormire, condormiscere.  Cym. heppian.  A.S. [Anglo-Saxon:  hnaeppan].  Quod postremum videri potest desumptum ex [Greek:  knephas], obscuritas, tenebrae:  nihil enim aeque solet conciliare somnum, quam caliginosa profundae noctis obscuritas.

STAMMERER, Balbus, blaesus.  Goth. [Gothic:  STAMMS].  A.S. [Anglo-Saxon:  stamer, stamur].  D. stam.  B. stameler.  Su. stamma.  Isl. stamr.  Sunt a [Greek:  stomulein] vel [Greek:  stomullein], nimia loquacitate alios offendere; quod impedite loquentes libentissime garrire soleant; vel quod aliis nimii semper videantur, etiam parcissime loquentes.

[2] The structure of Hume’s sentences is French.  For Johnson’s opinion
    of it, see Boswell, i. 420.  Edit. 1816.

[3] Blackstone very frequently denounces the use of Norman French in
    our law proceedings, and in Parliament as a badge of slavery, which
    he could have wished to see “fall into total oblivion, unless it be
    reserved as a solemn memento to remind us that our liberties are
    mortal, having once been destroyed by a foreign force.”  Much amusing
    and interesting research on the once prevalent use of French in
    England, is exhibited in Barrington’s Observations on the more
    Antient Statutes.

And Frenche she spake full fetously;
After the schole of Stratforde at Bowe,
For Frenche of Paris was to her unknowne. 

                                          Chaucer’s Prologue to the Prioress’ Tale.

[4] Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary was published on the fifteenth day of
    April 1755, in two vols. folio, price 4_l_. 10_s._ bound.  The
    booksellers who engaged in this national work were the Knaptons,
    Longman, Hitch and Co.  Millar, and Dodsley.

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