How he mammocked it.”
(Shakes., Coriolanus, i, 3.)
[416] Dolmades is a common Greek dish now.
[417] Gobbet (cf. Old French gober, to devour greedily) here means made into mouthfuls. “Down comes a kite powdering upon them, and gobbets up both together.” (L’Estrange.)
[418] Slip slop = feeble composition.
[419] Ploy, abbreviated form of “employ”. “Twa unlucky red-coats were up for black-fishing or some siccun ploy.” (Scott, Waverley, ch. lxiv.)
[420] Finjan is Turkish for a cup.
[421] In Feb. 1674 the Imperialists carried off the Prince of Furstenberg, a plenipotentiary accredited to the Court at Cologne. This outrage broke off negotiations between France and Germany.
[422] Deriv. Persian martaban, a glazed vessel.
[423] Taback is a Turkish word for “plate”.