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re 13 ac. Is it Hobb? It isn't in Chambers?
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13a Puck etc, in this sense accepting his master's opening couplet (4)
Hobs - Chambers gives 'hob' as "Robin Goodfellow" (Puck, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") - 'Ob(eron)' (opening 2 letters of Puck's master) (in) 'hs' (hoc sensu; Latin "in this sense")
13a Puck etc, in this sense accepting his master's opening couplet (4)
Hobs - Chambers gives 'hob' as "Robin Goodfellow" (Puck, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") - 'Ob(eron)' (opening 2 letters of Puck's master) (in) 'hs' (hoc sensu; Latin "in this sense")