troll, XI. 620; from O.F. troller, mod. F. trôler, to drag about—a Teutonic word; cf. Germ. trollen, Dutch drollen, to roll, troll. Cognate with trawl. voutsafe, XI. 170, XII. 120; spelt so in the original edition. M. wished to avoid the awkward sound ch before s just as in proper names he avoids using sh. Middle E. vouchen safe, to warrant as safe; vouchen = Law Fr. voucher, to call, Lat. vocare. wrack, XI. 821, destruction; the usual form of the word till late in the 17th century; cf. shipwracked in S. A. 198. wrack, never wreck, is the spelling of noun and verb in the first Folio of Shak.; cf. places where the rhyme has prevented modernising, e.g. Lucrece, 841, 965, Venus and A. 558, and Macbeth, V. 5. 51, "Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back." We still use "to rack and ruin," where we mean wrack. From A. S. wrecan, to drive, the wreck, or wrack, being that which is driven ashore; wreak is cognate. INDEX OF WORDS. This list applies to the Notes only; words of which longer explana- |