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bee hunter – a free spirited Valley girl; beemsch – good show: a blend of bahl (good) and show. beeson tree – a stock saddle: Beeson was a trade name. beeljeck – a rabbit: a blend of Belgian hare and jack rabbit. belhoon – a dollar. bilch – sexual intercourse.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
The charm is named for its opening words, "wiþ ymbe", meaning "against (or towards) a swarm of bees". [ 2 ] In the most often studied portion, towards the end of the text where the charm itself is located, the bees are referred to as sigewif , "victory-women".
Charles Butler (1571 [1] – 29 March 1647), [2] sometimes called the Father of English Beekeeping, [3] was a logician, grammarian, author, priest (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), and an influential beekeeper. He was also an early proponent of English spelling reform. He observed that bees produce wax combs from scales ...
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A scopa (plural scopae; Latin for "broom") is any of a number of different modifications on the body of a non-parasitic bee that form a pollen-carrying apparatus. In most species of bees, the scopa is simply a dense mass of elongated, often branched, hairs (or setae) on the hind leg.
The salutations offered to Bhramari in the Devi Bhagavata Purana indicate that she is a form of the goddess of prosperity, Lakshmi: [10] Obeisance to Thee!
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