_Forrell_ (Vol. vii., p. 630.).--Your correspondent T. HUGHES derives this
word (applied in Devonshire, as he tells us, to the cover of book) from
_forrell_, "a term still used by the trade to signify an inferior kind of
vellum." Is it not more natural to suppose it to be the same word which the
French have made _fourreau_, a cover or sheath? (See Du Cange, vv.
_Forellus, Forrellus_.)