The word is perhaps akin to the low Latin _suellium_, threshing-floor, or to the Norman French _swele_, threshold: in which case the original meaning would be _bounds_ or _limits_. C. H. St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. _Col-fabias_ (Vol. iii., p. 390.).--This word is a Latinised form of the Irish words Cul-{f}eabu{s} (cul-feabus), _i. e._ "a closet of decency" or "for the sake of decency." FRA. CROSSLEY. _Poem from the Digby MS._ (Vol. iii., p. 367.).--Your correspondent H. A. B. will find the lines in his MS. beginning "You worms, my rivals," &c., printed, with very slight variations, amongst Beaumont's poems, in Moxon's edition of the Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, 1840. They are the concluding lines of "An Elegy on the Lady Markham." W. J. BERNHARD SMITH. _Umbrella_ (Vol. iii., pp. 37. 126.).--I find the following passage in the fourth edition of Blount's _Glossographia_, published as far back as 1674. "_Umbrello_ (Ital. _Ombrella_), a fashion of round and broad Fans, wherewith the _Indians_ (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of the sun or fire; and hence any little shadow, Fan, or other thing, wherewith the women guard their faces from the sun." In Kersey's _Dictionarium Anglo-Britannicum_, 1708, it is thus noticed-- "_Umbrella_, or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen, commonly us'd by women to shelter them from Rain: also a Wooden Frame cover'd with cloth to keep off the sun from a window." "_Parasol (F.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women carry over their heads." And in Phillips's _New World of Words_, 7th ed., 1720-- "_Umbrella_ or _Umbrello_, a kind of broad Fan or Skreen, which in hot countries People hold over their heads to keep off the Heat of the Sun; or such as are here commonly us'd by women to shelter them from Rain: Also, a wooden Frame cover'd with cloth or stuff, to keep off the sun from a window." "_Parasol (Fr.)_, a small sort of canopy or umbrello, which women carry over their Heads, to shelter themselves from Rain," &c. T. C. T. _The Curse of Scotland_ (Vol. iii., p. 22.).--Your correspondent L. says, the true explanation of the circumstance of the nine of diamonds being called the curse of Scotland is to be found in the game of Pope Joan; but with all due deference to him, I must beg entirely to dissent from this opinion, and to adhere to the notion of its origin being traceable to the heraldic bearing of the family of Dalrymple, which are or, on a saltire azure, _nine lozenges of the field_.