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 37
... Dress . The glory of the court , their fashions And brave agguize , with all their princely More's Philos . Poems , p . 7 . state . ( 2 ) v . Spenser . To dress ; to put on . AGHE , pres . t . Ought . AGHEN , adj . ( A.-S. ) Own ...
... Dress . The glory of the court , their fashions And brave agguize , with all their princely More's Philos . Poems , p . 7 . state . ( 2 ) v . Spenser . To dress ; to put on . AGHE , pres . t . Ought . AGHEN , adj . ( A.-S. ) Own ...
Page 49
... dress as suitably as they can to the cha- racters they assume . A large empty barn , or some such build- ing , is provided for the lord's hall , and fitted up with seats to accommodate the company . Here they assemble to dance and ...
... dress as suitably as they can to the cha- racters they assume . A large empty barn , or some such build- ing , is provided for the lord's hall , and fitted up with seats to accommodate the company . Here they assemble to dance and ...
Page 123
... dress . An attacke , is as much as to say , vulgarly , tack'd or fasten'd together , or one thing fasten'd to another . Ladies ' Dictionary , 1694 . ( 2 ) v . ( A.-N. ) To attach ; to indite . And comaunded a constable , That com at the ...
... dress . An attacke , is as much as to say , vulgarly , tack'd or fasten'd together , or one thing fasten'd to another . Ladies ' Dictionary , 1694 . ( 2 ) v . ( A.-N. ) To attach ; to indite . And comaunded a constable , That com at the ...
Page 159
... dress for the neck , worn commonly by gen- tlemen . His shirt he chaungeth , as the moone doth chaunge , His band is starch'd with grease , french- russet cleare . Davies , Scourge of Folly , 1611 . Some laundresse we also will entreate ...
... dress for the neck , worn commonly by gen- tlemen . His shirt he chaungeth , as the moone doth chaunge , His band is starch'd with grease , french- russet cleare . Davies , Scourge of Folly , 1611 . Some laundresse we also will entreate ...
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... dress . Lydgate's Minor Poems , p . 201 . BELG , v . To bellow . Somerset . BELGARDS , 8. ( Fr. ) Fair looks . BELGRANDFATHER , 8 . A great great grandfather . BELIER , adv . Just now . Somerset . BELIKE , adv . Certainly ; per ...
... dress . Lydgate's Minor Poems , p . 201 . BELG , v . To bellow . Somerset . BELGARDS , 8. ( Fr. ) Fair looks . BELGRANDFATHER , 8 . A great great grandfather . BELIER , adv . Just now . Somerset . BELIKE , adv . Certainly ; per ...
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