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Cotgrave , Ruade seiche, a drie bob, jeast or nip. Bailey has 'Dry Bob. a Taunt or Scoff'. p. 100 By Yea and Nay. 'Yea and Nay' was often derisively applied to the Puritans, and hence to their lineal descendants the Whigs, in allusion to the Scriptural injunction, S. Matthew v, 33-7, which they feigned exactly to follow. Fletcher's Monsieur Thomas, Act ii, III, where Thomas says:
The inhabitants of the shores of the Lake of Geneva have long designated this rhythmical oscillation of the level of the water by the term of Seiche; and this designation has been adopted by scientific writers.
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