"notomy" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1765, Sheridan, “Letter LXXX. To Mrs. Susanna Neville”, in Jonathan Swift, editor, The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, volume XIII, […] George Faulkner, pages 233-234:",
          "text": "They allow me to eat nothing at night but blanchius manſhius, which has made a perfect notomy of me; […]",
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          "ref": "1806, Rachel Hunter, chapter V, in Lady Maclairn, The Victim of Villan, volume I, London: […] W. Earle; J. W. Hucklebridge, page 133:",
          "text": "Dame Dobs, who nurses Miss, told me a wesk agonie she did not know which of the dear souls would go first, for Madam Howard was a mere notomy with fretting.",
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          "ref": "1833, Asa Greene, chapter XVII, in The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus Duckworth, A. N. Q., volume I, New York: Peter Hill, page 215:",
          "text": "But the good lady, thought she had courage enough to speak, dared not touch the skeleton. […]\n\"Do, do,\" said Dody, \"take off the notomy!\"\n\"Why don't you get up?\" asked Mrs. Whistlewind\"\n\"I can't,\" said the student, \"I can't stir a limb, any more than if a night-mare was a top on me. The notomy is holding me down.\"",
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          "ref": "1846, Harry Hieover, Stable Talk and Table Talk; or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 298:",
          "text": "If he sees a gentleman on a horse that is not a colt, he begins, in a particularly civil voice, \"Beg pardon, Sir! what are you axing for the old horse?\" Should a servant be on one that looks in good working condition, he begins, with, \"Now, then, how much for the notomy? wo, old Step-and-fetch-it: let's look at you\" — this of course loud enough to be heard by all by-standers.",
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        "A skeleton; (also figurative) someone emaciated."
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        "(dialectal, obsolete) A skeleton; (also figurative) someone emaciated."
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          "text": "They allow me to eat nothing at night but blanchius manſhius, which has made a perfect notomy of me; […]",
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          "text": "But the good lady, thought she had courage enough to speak, dared not touch the skeleton. […]\n\"Do, do,\" said Dody, \"take off the notomy!\"\n\"Why don't you get up?\" asked Mrs. Whistlewind\"\n\"I can't,\" said the student, \"I can't stir a limb, any more than if a night-mare was a top on me. The notomy is holding me down.\"",
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