animal
Cricket
Cricket as an animal people have named and used. Hearth song, patience, quiet company — one living kind, not a single symbol.
Cricket is historically related to Wool.
In Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, Cricket sits with Wool in textile speech — named together on the working page.
from Arnold James Cooley · Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts, 6th ed. (PD; Gutenberg #39733 / #41957)
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Cricket is historically related to Oil.
In Dioscorides's De Materia Medica, Cricket is treated with Oil; piece and peer stock share the entry.
from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE
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Cricket is historically related to Wax.
In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Cricket is placed beside Wax as concrete shop companions.
from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)
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sources
- Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts · Arnold James Cooley
Arnold James Cooley, Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts (6th ed.).
- De Materia Medica · Pedanius Dioscorides
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica.
- A Treatise on Optics · David Brewster
David Brewster, A Treatise on Optics.