_The Word Shunt_ (Vol. v., p. 352.) is quite common in the North of England; in Lancashire it is perhaps especially so. It signifies to shift, to move, to give way: as, speaking of a thing, a wall or foundation, which has moved from its position, we should say, "it has shunted;" or of a thing which requires moving, "Shunt it a little that way," "Shunt it at the other end." _Shunt_, to move, to slip, to give way; _shuntu_, they move; _shuntut_, they moved.--See Bamford's _Lancashire Dialect_: Smith, Soho Square. The word _grin_, in the same county, signifies a noose to catch hares or other game, as well as the act of grinning with the teeth. The word _gin_ is seldom used, except to express a horse gin-wheel, or the _blue-ruin_ of the Pandemoniums. P. D. _Plato's Lines in "Antho. Palat."_ (Vol. v., p. 317.).-- "Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bent On the bright orbs that gem the firmament: Would that I were the heaven, that I might be All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee." "You look upon the stars, my star! would I might be Yon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee." V. _Abigail_ (Vol. iv., p. 424.; Vol. v., pp. 38. 94.).--As your correspondents have not thrown much light upon this subject, I will here mention that the use of this name in the sense alluded to has probably originated from a "waiting gentlewoman" who figures in Beaumont and Fletcher's comedy of _The Scornful Lady_. As this play appears from Pepys's _Diary_ to have been a great favourite after the Restoration, it was then most probably that the term came into use. J. S. WARDEN. _Nuremberg Token, or Counter_ (Vol. v., pp. 201. 260.).--G. H. K. appears to consider the object of H. C. K.'s Query a tradesman's token. This is by no means the case. It is a jetton, or counter, such as was formerly much in use for casting accounts, on a principle very similar to that of the abacus. They are found in vast numbers in England, but were principally manufactured at Nuremberg, where a large trade in them must have been carried on. The greatest manufacturers of the "Rechenpfennige" were the members of the families of Schultz, Laufer, and Krauwinckel. Of the three Krauwinckels, the productions of Hans are most numerous. Many of them have legends of a moral or religious character, as "Gottes Segen macht reich," God's blessing maketh rich; "Gott allein die Ehre sey," To God alone be the glory; "Heut rodt, Morgen todt," To-day _red_, to-morrow dead, &c. The date 1601 occurs on several of those of Hans K., with mythological devices.--See Snelling's _Treatise on Jettons, or Counters_. J. E. The legend on the counter described signifies "John Kravwinckel in Nuremberg." Rx "God's kingdom remains always."