Of rich and poor is all the history:
Enough, if virtue fill'd the space between,
Prov'd, by the ends of being, to have been."
George S. Master.
Welsh-Hampton, Salop.
Lieutenant.—The vulgar pronunciation of this word, leftenant, probably arose from the old practice of confounding u and v. It is spelt leivtenant in the Colonial Records of New York. The changes may have been lievtenant, levtenant, leftenant.
Uneda.
Philadelphia.
"Prigging Tooth" or "Pugging Tooth."—Mr. Collier, in his new book on Shakspeare, containing early manuscript corrections of the folio of 1632, says at page 191., in enumerating those of the Winter's Tale, that the emendator substitutes (Act IV. Sc. 2.) "prigging tooth" for the "pugging tooth" of the old copies. Now this, I believe, has been the generally received interpretation, but it is quite wrong. Prigging, that is stealing, tooth, would be nonsense; pugging is the correct word, and is most expressive. Antolycus means his molar—his grinding tooth is set on edge.
A pugging-mill (sometimes abbreviated and called pug-mill) is a machine for crushing and tempering lime, consisting of two heavy rollers or wheels in a circular trough; the wheels are hung loose upon the ends of a bar of iron or axle-tree, which is fastened by the centre either to the top or bottom of an upright spindle, moved by a horse or other power, as the case may be, thus causing the wheels in their circuit to revolve from their friction upon the trough, and so to bruise the nuts of lime, which together with the sand and water are fed by a labourer, who removes the mortar when made. The machine is of course variously constructed for the kind of work it has to do: there is a pugging-mill used in the making of bricks that is fitted with projecting knives to cut and knead the clay.