_Quistourne_ (Vol. iv., p. 116.).--Here is a word so very like the
Devonshire one which has puzzled a correspondent, that it may be the
same one in sense as well in sound. In one of the Low-Norman insular
dialects, it denotes a slap with the _back_ of the _hand_; in
French-British[3], KIS DOURN, _revers de main_.
[Footnote 3: I was asked by a great and true scholar, now no more,
What do you mean by _British_? My answer was, "The nation that you
have nicknamed _Welsh_ or _Strangers_, which they are not. With me
the English are still English, the Scotch Scots, the Britons in
France the British there."]