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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Page 87
... coarse crust , and baking them without a pan . APPLE - JACK , 8. An apple turnover . APPLE - JOHN , s . An apple , which will keep two years , and conse- quently becomes very withered . I am wither'd like an old apple - John , 2 Hen ...
... coarse crust , and baking them without a pan . APPLE - JACK , 8. An apple turnover . APPLE - JOHN , s . An apple , which will keep two years , and conse- quently becomes very withered . I am wither'd like an old apple - John , 2 Hen ...
Page 104
... coarse cake , composed of flour , water , yeast , currants , and some kind of spice , called arval - bread , is some- times distributed among the poor . ARVYST - GOS , s . A stubble goose . A yong wyf and an arryst - gos , Moche gagil ...
... coarse cake , composed of flour , water , yeast , currants , and some kind of spice , called arval - bread , is some- times distributed among the poor . ARVYST - GOS , s . A stubble goose . A yong wyf and an arryst - gos , Moche gagil ...
Page 175
... Coarse flour . BATE . ( 1 ) 8. ( A.-S. ) Contention ; debate ; strife . ( 2 ) v . To abate ; to diminish . ( 3 ) v . To flutter , applied to hawks . ( 4 ) pret . t . of bite . Bit . ( 5 ) prep . Without ; except . Lanc . ( 6 ) v . To ...
... Coarse flour . BATE . ( 1 ) 8. ( A.-S. ) Contention ; debate ; strife . ( 2 ) v . To abate ; to diminish . ( 3 ) v . To flutter , applied to hawks . ( 4 ) pret . t . of bite . Bit . ( 5 ) prep . Without ; except . Lanc . ( 6 ) v . To ...
Page 198
... coarse grasses , reeds , and rushes ; the grounds , or pas- tures , on which they grow . Dif- ferent writers apply the term to the juncus bulbosus ; the star- wort ; the arundo arenaria ; the alopecurus geniculatus ; and the agrostis ...
... coarse grasses , reeds , and rushes ; the grounds , or pas- tures , on which they grow . Dif- ferent writers apply the term to the juncus bulbosus ; the star- wort ; the arundo arenaria ; the alopecurus geniculatus ; and the agrostis ...
Page 210
... coarse language of its frequenters ; so that low abuse is often termed talking Billingsgate . Billings was formerly a gate , though now rather portus than porta , being the prime landing place and market for some sca commodities . Now ...
... coarse language of its frequenters ; so that low abuse is often termed talking Billingsgate . Billings was formerly a gate , though now rather portus than porta , being the prime landing place and market for some sca commodities . Now ...
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15th cent Alisaunder ampt Antiq apple applied beat Berks bird blow boil bread called cattle Chaucer Chesh cloth coarse conj cookery corn Cornw Cotgrave Craven Cumb Cursor Mundi Derb Devon dial dish Dorset doth dress drink East Essex Exmoor fellow fish Florio fool Forme of Cury Glouc gode ground hath hawk head Heref horse Huloet iron Jons Kent kind Knave Kyng lady Lanc land Leic Linc Morte Arthure Nomenclator Norf North Northampt Northumb old cant term old name Palsgr Parv person piece Piers Pl plant play plough prep pret pron Pudendum Shakesp sheep Shoreham Shropsh Somers Somerset sort South Spens Spenser stone Suff Suffolk Suss Sussex Terence in English ther thou tree Warner's Albions England Warw West Wight wild William de Shoreham Wilts wine woman wood wooden word Yorksh young