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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... child utters the sound a - a when it | is born , because it is the initial of Adam , and a female e - e , as that of Eve . AAC , S. ( A.-S. ) An oak . North . AAD , adj . ( A.-S. ) Old . Yorksh . AADLE , V. ( A.-S. ) To flourish . Suf ...
... child utters the sound a - a when it | is born , because it is the initial of Adam , and a female e - e , as that of Eve . AAC , S. ( A.-S. ) An oak . North . AAD , adj . ( A.-S. ) Old . Yorksh . AADLE , V. ( A.-S. ) To flourish . Suf ...
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... children . ACHORN 8. An acorn . Cheshire . ACISE . For assise . ACITE , v . ( A.-N. ) To cite ; sum mon . See Accite . Аск , г. To mind ; to regard . North . ACKER , egor , the flowing of the 18. ( apparently from A.-S. AKER , sea ...
... children . ACHORN 8. An acorn . Cheshire . ACISE . For assise . ACITE , v . ( A.-N. ) To cite ; sum mon . See Accite . Аск , г. To mind ; to regard . North . ACKER , egor , the flowing of the 18. ( apparently from A.-S. AKER , sea ...
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... children wrought his wracke . Warner's Albion's England , 1592 . Pors afyed in his streynthe . K. Alisaunder , 7851 . Who that hath trewe amye , Joliflich he may hym in her afyghe . Ib . , 4753 . ( 2 ) To betroth in marriage . And ...
... children wrought his wracke . Warner's Albion's England , 1592 . Pors afyed in his streynthe . K. Alisaunder , 7851 . Who that hath trewe amye , Joliflich he may hym in her afyghe . Ib . , 4753 . ( 2 ) To betroth in marriage . And ...
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... child he sette next his hende , In the altherfairest sete . Floris and Blanchflour . -first . The first of all . Tho allerfurst he undurstode That he was ryght kyngis blod . Kyng Alisaunder , 1569 . -formest . The first of all . For ...
... child he sette next his hende , In the altherfairest sete . Floris and Blanchflour . -first . The first of all . Tho allerfurst he undurstode That he was ryght kyngis blod . Kyng Alisaunder , 1569 . -formest . The first of all . For ...
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... children , the conse- quence of drunkenness . " ALIE , V. ( 4.-S. ) To anoint . ALIEN , v . ( A.-N. ) To alienate . A - LIFE , adv . As my life ; exces- sively . I love a ballad in print a - life . Shaksp . , Wint . T. , iv , 3 . Thou ...
... children , the conse- quence of drunkenness . " ALIE , V. ( 4.-S. ) To anoint . ALIEN , v . ( A.-N. ) To alienate . A - LIFE , adv . As my life ; exces- sively . I love a ballad in print a - life . Shaksp . , Wint . T. , iv , 3 . Thou ...
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15th cent Alisaunder ampt Antiq apple applied beat Ben Jonson bird called cant term Chaucer Chesh cloth colour conj cookery corn Cornw Cotgrave Craven Cumb Cursor Mundi Devon dial Dictionary dish Dorset doth dress drink East English Essex Exmoor fellow Florio fool Forme of Cury Gawayne Glouc gode hath hawk herb horse Huloet Kent kind Kyng lady Lanc land Leic Linc lord Minsheu Morte Arthure Myst Nomenclator Norf North Northampt Northumb Palsgrave part.p Parv person Peter Langtoft piece Piers Pl Piers Ploughman plant play plough Portrait prep pret Prompt Reliq round sche Shakesp Shoreham Shropsh Skinner Somerset sort South Spens Spenser stone Suffolk Sussex ther thing thou tion Trans tree vols Warner's Albions England Warw West Wight William de Shoreham Wilts wolde woman wood word Yorksh