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In the novel's near-future, six huge towers have been built on the surface of Mars to house Chinese, Western, "Russ-Eastern" "Singa-Thai", "Scand" and "Sud-Am" colonies.
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Mr H. Bradley thinks the association with lad merely accidental, the word first appearing about 1300 in northern writings as lasce, evidently representing a Scand. laskw, the fem. of an adj. meaning unmarried; cf.
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Scand.; cog. with A.S. blysa, a blaze.
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Ain’t that perfec’ly scand’lous?” muttered Uncle Jabez.
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Stated by Borrow to be a Scand. word, meaning “elfin plant,” but the dictionaries do not give it.
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