_Nervous_ (Vol. iv., p. 7.).--_Nervous_ has unquestionably the double
meaning assigned to it in MR. BANNEL'S Query. The propriety of the
English practice, in this respect, may be doubted. _Nervous_ is
correctly equivalent to Lat. _nervosus_; Fr. _nerveux_, strong,
vigorous. In the sense of _nervous weakness_, or, perhaps more
correctly, _nervine weakness_, the word should probably be _nervish_,
analogous to _qualmish_, _squeamish_, _aguish_, _feverish_, &c. In
Scotland, though the English may regard it as a vulgarism, I have heard
the word used in this form.