Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 1 |
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... blow , or whack , for each lost game . ABELYCHE , adv . Ably . ABENCHE , adv . Rob . Glouc . ABENT , 8. A steep place . Skinner . ABEQUITATE , v . ( Lat . abequito . ) To ride away . This word is given by Minsheu , in his Guide into ...
... blow , or whack , for each lost game . ABELYCHE , adv . Ably . ABENCHE , adv . Rob . Glouc . ABENT , 8. A steep place . Skinner . ABEQUITATE , v . ( Lat . abequito . ) To ride away . This word is given by Minsheu , in his Guide into ...
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... blowing up . That's safe , ile able it . Middl . Game at Chesse . ABLAQUEATION , 8. ( Lat . ) 8vo . The walmes han the abland . Sevyn Sages , 2462 . The practice of opening the ground about the roots of trees , for the admission of air ...
... blowing up . That's safe , ile able it . Middl . Game at Chesse . ABLAQUEATION , 8. ( Lat . ) 8vo . The walmes han the abland . Sevyn Sages , 2462 . The practice of opening the ground about the roots of trees , for the admission of air ...
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... blow , And that Pelorus crooked straites begin themselves to show , Than left hand land , and left hand sea , with compas long alee , Fetch out aloofe from lands and seas o right hand , see thou flee . Phoer's Virgil , 1600 . ALEES , 8 ...
... blow , And that Pelorus crooked straites begin themselves to show , Than left hand land , and left hand sea , with compas long alee , Fetch out aloofe from lands and seas o right hand , see thou flee . Phoer's Virgil , 1600 . ALEES , 8 ...
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... blow without being unhorsed . No man ne myghte with strengthe asytte Hys swordes draught . Octovian , 1665 . Ask , ASKER , ASKARD , ASKEL , ARSKE . 8. ( A.-S. apexe . ) A water newt , or lizard . Snakes and nederes thar he fand , And ...
... blow without being unhorsed . No man ne myghte with strengthe asytte Hys swordes draught . Octovian , 1665 . Ask , ASKER , ASKARD , ASKEL , ARSKE . 8. ( A.-S. apexe . ) A water newt , or lizard . Snakes and nederes thar he fand , And ...
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... blow . The word occurs with this explanation in Rider's Dictionarie , 1640. It is used by Shakespeare as a verb active , to ascend , without the particle which now usually ac- companies this word . Until our bodies turn to elements ...
... blow . The word occurs with this explanation in Rider's Dictionarie , 1640. It is used by Shakespeare as a verb active , to ascend , without the particle which now usually ac- companies this word . Until our bodies turn to elements ...
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