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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... ground about the roots of trees , for the admission of air and water . ABLASTE , 8. ( A.-N. ) A cross - how . Prompt . Parv . The correspond- ing Latin word balista in the Prompt . Parv . does not give a very definite explanation . It ...
... ground about the roots of trees , for the admission of air and water . ABLASTE , 8. ( A.-N. ) A cross - how . Prompt . Parv . The correspond- ing Latin word balista in the Prompt . Parv . does not give a very definite explanation . It ...
Page 15
... ground . Ne is there hawk that mantleth her on perche , Whether high towering or accoasting low . Speiser's Faerie Queene . AccoIL , v . ( A.-N. ) To be in a coil , or bustle of business . About the cauldron many cookes accoyld With ...
... ground . Ne is there hawk that mantleth her on perche , Whether high towering or accoasting low . Speiser's Faerie Queene . AccoIL , v . ( A.-N. ) To be in a coil , or bustle of business . About the cauldron many cookes accoyld With ...
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... ground . ALAUNDER , S. A kind of pottage . Alander of moton . Take moton of the legge , and seth hit tendur bi hitself , and qwhen hit is sothen , take and braie hit in a morter , or hewe hit smal with a knyie , and putte hit in a po ...
... ground . ALAUNDER , S. A kind of pottage . Alander of moton . Take moton of the legge , and seth hit tendur bi hitself , and qwhen hit is sothen , take and braie hit in a morter , or hewe hit smal with a knyie , and putte hit in a po ...
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... Ground ivy ; for- merly used in the making of ale . Gerard . ALEICHE , adj . Alike ; equally . ALE - IN - CORNES , 8 . New ale . Hu- loet's Abcedarium , 1552 . ALEIS . ( 1 ) Alas ! North . ( 2 ) s . Alleys . ( 3 ) s . Aloes . Chaucer ...
... Ground ivy ; for- merly used in the making of ale . Gerard . ALEICHE , adj . Alike ; equally . ALE - IN - CORNES , 8 . New ale . Hu- loet's Abcedarium , 1552 . ALEIS . ( 1 ) Alas ! North . ( 2 ) s . Alleys . ( 3 ) s . Aloes . Chaucer ...
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... Ground ivy . Minsheu . ALLHOSE , S. The herb horsehoof . ALLICIATE , D. ( Lat . ) To attract . ALLICIENCY , 8. Attraction . ALLIENY , 8. An alley ; a passage in a building . ALLIGANT . A corruption of Alicant , the name of a Spanish ...
... Ground ivy . Minsheu . ALLHOSE , S. The herb horsehoof . ALLICIATE , D. ( Lat . ) To attract . ALLICIENCY , 8. Attraction . ALLIENY , 8. An alley ; a passage in a building . ALLIGANT . A corruption of Alicant , the name of a Spanish ...
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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