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Cu. claggy, adhesive, clog, to stick to, O. E. clæg, from which N. Eng. clay.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
N. Eng. to Mich. and Va.; rare westward. b.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Cl. and V. cites the N. Eng. form ram, bitter, which is the same word.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
N. Eng. to S. C., west to Mich. and Ky. 12.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Had a letter from Mr. Marvin—all well—he is doing the Washington letter of a N. Eng. paper.
From The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Anne Burrows Gilchrist
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