_Ordinary._--The following is a new meaning for the word _ordinary_:--"Do
ye come in and see my poor man, for he is _piteous ordinary_ to-day." This
speech was addressed to me by a poor woman who wished me to go and see her
husband. He was ordinary enough, although she had adorned his head with a
_red_ night-cap; but her meaning was evidently that he was far from well;
and Johnson's _Dictionary_ does not give this signification to the word.