intj. (printers’).—No score or love in JEFF-ING (q.v.) with quads.

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  TO TIE WITH ST. MARY’S KNOT, verb. phr. (Scots’).—To hamstring.

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  1784.  Poetical Museum, ‘Dick o’ tha Cow,’ p. 37.

        Then Dickie into the stable is gane,—
  Where there stood thirty horses and three;
He has TIED THEM A’ WI’ ST. MARY’S KNOT,
  A’ these horses but barely three.

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