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... kind , which shall contain the obsolete Anglo - Saxon and Anglo - Norman words used by the English writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , many of the obsolete Latin words introduced in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
... kind , which shall contain the obsolete Anglo - Saxon and Anglo - Norman words used by the English writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , many of the obsolete Latin words introduced in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
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... kind of exclamation when a sally of wit miscarried . Said to be taken from the lan- See guage used in jousting . Shakesp . All's Well that Ends Well , ii , 1 . ACROSTIC , adj . Crossed on the breast . " Acrostic arms . " Middle- ton ...
... kind of exclamation when a sally of wit miscarried . Said to be taken from the lan- See guage used in jousting . Shakesp . All's Well that Ends Well , ii , 1 . ACROSTIC , adj . Crossed on the breast . " Acrostic arms . " Middle- ton ...
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... kind of taffetas . ALAMORT , adj . ( Fr. ) Half dead ; in a dying state ; drooping . Whose soft and royal treatment may suffice , To heal the sick , to cheer the alamort . Fansh . Lusiad , v , 85 . Sometimes written all amort . See ...
... kind of taffetas . ALAMORT , adj . ( Fr. ) Half dead ; in a dying state ; drooping . Whose soft and royal treatment may suffice , To heal the sick , to cheer the alamort . Fansh . Lusiad , v , 85 . Sometimes written all amort . See ...
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... kind of precious stone , in the follow- ing passage quoted from a MS . of the 15th century . Here cropyng was of ryche gold , Here parrelle alle of alaran : Here brydyll was of reler boide , On every side hangyd belly's then . ALARGE ...
... kind of precious stone , in the follow- ing passage quoted from a MS . of the 15th century . Here cropyng was of ryche gold , Here parrelle alle of alaran : Here brydyll was of reler boide , On every side hangyd belly's then . ALARGE ...
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... kind of botch or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , S. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
... kind of botch or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , S. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
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