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Kentish, a.|ˈkɛntɪʃ|
Also 1 Centisc, 3 Kentisc, -iss, 4 Kentissh(e.
[OE. Cęntisc, f. Cęnt, ad. L. Cantia Kent + isc, -ish1.]
1. Of or belonging to Kent. Chiefly of the inhabitants or speech. Kentish man (see quot. 1887).
a1100O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 999 Com þa seo Centisce fyrde þær onᵹean. c1205Lay. 7441 Kentisce [later text Kentisse] leoden. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 355 Þis Ethelbertus regnede among Kentisshe men fyfe and fifty ȝere. 1590Swinburne Testaments 71 At last also the kentish-men yeelded. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 346 The wives and daughters of the Kentish farmers. 1887Kent. Gloss., Man of Kent, a title claimed by the inhabitants of the Weald as their peculiar designation: all others they regard as Kentish men.
2. absol. as n.
a. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Kent. rare.
b. The dialect of Kent.
905O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 905 Þa ætsæton ða Centiscan þær beæftan. 1670Ray Collect. Prov. 233 Kentish long-tails..A note of disgrace on all English men, though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day. 1735Pegge Kenticisms 15 Thus the Kentish would have many particularities in their speech. 1866Morris Ayenb. Introd. 6 In the Old Kentish of the Ayenbite an e takes the place of the Southern u. 1887Kent. Gloss. Introd. 8 The specimens of Kentish in the Early and Middle English Periods.
3. a. Common in, or peculiar to, Kent, as Kentish ague, Kentish cherry, Kentish codlin, Kentish pippin, Kentish tracery, Kentish tree; made or manufactured in Kent, as Kentish brick, Kentish cloth, etc. b. Kentish balsam, Dog's Mercury, Mercurialis perennis (Britt. & Holl.); † Kentish cap, a species of paper (see quot.); Kentish cousins, distant relatives; Kentish crow, one of the many names of the hooded crow, Corvus cornix; Kentish fire, a prolonged and ordered salvo or volley of applause, or demonstration of impatience or dissent (said to have originated in reference to meetings held in Kent in 1828–9, in opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill: see N. & Q. series 2, I. 182, 423; VIII. 278); Kentish glory, a large beautiful moth, Endromis versicolor; † Kentish Knocker [f. Kentish Knock the sand-bank before the mouth of the Thames], a Kentish smuggler; Kentish long-tails, a phrase embodying the old belief that the natives of Kent had tails; also, the Bearded Wild Oat-grass, Avena fatua (E.D.D.); Kentish nightingale, the blackcap; Kentish plover, a ring-plover, ægialitis cantianus, in Britain chiefly confined to Kent; Kentish rag, a hard compact limestone found in Kent, used for paving and building; Kentish tern, the Sandwich tern, Sterna cantiaca.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 239 Plain Work is done with the Grey *Kentish Bricks.
1766C. Leadbetter Royal Gauger ii. xiv. (ed. 6) 372 Names of Paper: *Kentish Cap. Dimensions of each Sheet—Length 21½ Bread. 18.
1566Act 8 Eliz. c. 6 §2 Anye Clothe commonly called *Kentyshe Clothe or Suffolke Clothe.
1803J. Abercrombie Ev. Man his own Gard. 671/1 Apples,..Holland Pippin, Kentish pippin, *Kentish codlin.
a1796Pegge Kenticisms, Proverbs (E.D.S.), *Kentish Cousins. The sense of this is much the same with that [of].. cousins germans quite remov'd.
1893P. H. Emerson Lagoons (1896) 156 (E.D.D.) We saw a hawk chasing a *Kentish crow.
1834Ld. Winchelsea Sp. at Dublin, 15 Aug. (Reddall Fact, Fancy & Fable, 1889, 301) Let it be given with *Kentish Fire. 1883Chamberlain Sp. at B'ham 30 Mar., The cheers..are your prompt reply to the Kentish-fire with which Birmingham Tories are wont to solace themselves.
1775M. Harris Eng. Lepidoptera 27 (heading) *Glory, Kentish. 1869E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 47 The Kentish Glory.—Fore wings of the male brown; hind wings orange-colour: all the wings of the female alike, pale smoky-brown. 1899D. Sharp Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vi. 406 The ‘Kentish glory’, Endromis versicolor,..is a large and strong moth, and flies wildly in the daytime in birch-woods. 1971Times 28 Jan. 12/6 The birch which provides the last English home of the Kentish glory moth.
1891W. C. Sydney Eng. in 18th C. I. 358 Gangs of forty or fifty ‘*Kentish Knockers’, as these smugglers were called.
1844Zoologist II. 620 Blackcap... It is frequently called the ‘*Kentish nightingale’, which epithet it deserves.
1837Gould Birds Europe IV. pl. 40 The habits of the *Kentish Plover are similar to those of the Ring Dottrel. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 341 The Kentish Plover..has its breeding place in Britain limited to the pebbly beach between Sandwich and Hastings.
1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. I. 158 From the Weald of Kent..they bring..A Kind of Paving Stone, called *Kentish-rags. 1879Rutley Study Rocks iii. 20 Some..as the Kentish rag, afford good building stones.
1720Gay Poems (1745) II. 100 Thy trembling lip..Red as the cherry from the *Kentish tree.
Hence ˈKentishly adv., in the Kentish manner.
1588W. Kempe Educ. Childr. C iv, Yea, in one house, we heare one speake Northernly, another Westernly, another Kentishly. |