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 2H. G. Bohn, 1857 - English language |
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... Shakespeare's Richard III . ABLACTATION , 8. ( Lat . ) A par- ticular method of grafting , where the cyon is as it were weaned by degrees from its maternal stock , but not wholly cut off , till it is firmly united to the stock on which ...
... Shakespeare's Richard III . ABLACTATION , 8. ( Lat . ) A par- ticular method of grafting , where the cyon is as it were weaned by degrees from its maternal stock , but not wholly cut off , till it is firmly united to the stock on which ...
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... Shakespeare in the sense of to work ! as in Hamlet , ii , 2 , " about , my brains ! " i . e . " brains , go to work . " ( 2 ) prep . Near , in the dialect of the Eastern Counties , where they say " worth nothing about twenty pounds ...
... Shakespeare in the sense of to work ! as in Hamlet , ii , 2 , " about , my brains ! " i . e . " brains , go to work . " ( 2 ) prep . Near , in the dialect of the Eastern Counties , where they say " worth nothing about twenty pounds ...
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... Shakespeare in Corio- lanus , ii . 3 : " Our heads are some brown , some black , some abram , some bald , but that our wits are so diversly coloured . " The folio of 1685 alters abram to auburn . See Abraham - coloured . ABRASE , v ...
... Shakespeare in Corio- lanus , ii . 3 : " Our heads are some brown , some black , some abram , some bald , but that our wits are so diversly coloured . " The folio of 1685 alters abram to auburn . See Abraham - coloured . ABRASE , v ...
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... Shakespeare's Henry FI . ABRUPT , part . p . ( Lat . abruptus . ) Separated . ABRUPTION , 8. ( Lat . ) A breaking off . Minsheu . ABRYGGE , V. To be shortened . My dayes , make y never so quaynte , Schullen abrygge and sumwhat swage ...
... Shakespeare's Henry FI . ABRUPT , part . p . ( Lat . abruptus . ) Separated . ABRUPTION , 8. ( Lat . ) A breaking off . Minsheu . ABRYGGE , V. To be shortened . My dayes , make y never so quaynte , Schullen abrygge and sumwhat swage ...
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... Shakespeare . AESUME , D. ( Lat . absumo . ) bring to an end by a gradual waste ; to eat up . destruction . ABSURD . Το Absumption , A scholastic term , em- ployed when false conclusions are illogically deduced from the premises of the ...
... Shakespeare . AESUME , D. ( Lat . absumo . ) bring to an end by a gradual waste ; to eat up . destruction . ABSURD . Το Absumption , A scholastic term , em- ployed when false conclusions are illogically deduced from the premises of the ...
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