COOK LANE GHOST
\kˈʊk lˈe͡ɪn ɡˈə͡ʊst], \kˈʊk lˈeɪn ɡˈəʊst], \k_ˈʊ_k l_ˈeɪ_n ɡ_ˈəʊ_s_t]\
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(C. L., Smithfield) The work of "a naughty girl of eleven," to which Dr. Johnson was " weak enough to pay serious attention," going " with some friends at one in the morning to St. John's Church, Clerkenwell, in the hope of receiving a communication from the perturbed spirit."-Macaulay's Biography.
By Henry Percy Smith
Word of the day
Snake's-head
- Guinea-hen flower; -- so called in England because its spotted petals resemble the scales of a snake's head.
Nearby Words
- cooeying
- coof
- cooh
- cooing
- cook
- Cook Lane ghost
- cook out
- cook strait
- cook up
- cook's speculum
- cook, f. joseph