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WHITLOW

Volume 18 · 44 words · 1797 Edition

or WHITLOE. See SURGERY.

WHITSUN-FARTHINGS, otherwise called Smoke-farthings or Quadrantites Pentecostales, a composition for offerings which were anciently made in Whitfus-week by every man in England, who occupied a house with a chimney, to the cathedral church of the diocese in which he lived.