Meaning of notomy | Babel Free

Definitions

A skeleton; (also figurative) someone emaciated.

dialectal, obsolete

Examples

“They allow me to eat nothing at night but blanchius manſhius, which has made a perfect notomy of me; […]”

“Dame Dobs, who nurses Miss, told me a wesk agonie she did not know which of the dear souls would go first, for Madam Howard was a mere notomy with fretting.”

“But the good lady, thought she had courage enough to speak, dared not touch the skeleton. […] "Do, do," said Dody, "take off the notomy!" "Why don't you get up?" asked Mrs. Whistlewind" "I can't," said the student, "I can't stir a limb, any more than if a night-mare was a top on me. The notomy is holding me down."”

“If he sees a gentleman on a horse that is not a colt, he begins, in a particularly civil voice, "Beg pardon, Sir! what are you axing for the old horse?" Should a servant be on one that looks in good working condition, he begins, with, "Now, then, how much for the notomy? wo, old Step-and-fetch-it: let's look at you" — this of course loud enough to be heard by all by-standers.”

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