On 21/01/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
The first place that I looked at for help on this was
my 1816 11th
edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary. What surprised me was to see
that it appears there only as an adjective.
According to my copy of W. Peacock's version of the Dictionary (fifth
edition, London, 1797), it is an adjective meaning "skilful,
intelligent, ready". Well, we have a great number of /ready/
contributors, that's for sure...
--
Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/