ABSTRACT
SETTLER-Unanswerable proposition. "This was a settler; I could make no answer."-Hogg,
"Thereupon he shadowed him up and down."-Rowlands, Greene's Ghost, 17 (1602).
SHAKE DICE. "Dice are shaked."-Googe, Popish Kingdoms, 47
Bartlett's only citation is dated 1876. Fourteen years earlier, the Cornhill Magazine, 6.613, spoke of "shakiness of the hand."
