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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... 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- guage used in jousting . See 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- guage used in jousting . See 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 fur . And eke his cloke with alabre , And the knottes of golde . MS . of 15th cent . ALACCHE , T. ( A.-N. alacher . ) To fresh supplies Was lately come aland . ALAND , ALAN , ALAUND , 8. ( A.-N. alan , alant . ) A kind of large ...
... kind of fur . And eke his cloke with alabre , And the knottes of golde . MS . of 15th cent . ALACCHE , T. ( A.-N. alacher . ) To fresh supplies Was lately come aland . ALAND , ALAN , ALAUND , 8. ( A.-N. alan , alant . ) A kind of large ...
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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 brydyli was of reler bolde , On every side hagyd bellys then . ALARGE , V ...
... 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 brydyli was of reler bolde , On every side hagyd bellys then . ALARGE , V ...
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... kind of botch or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , 8. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
... kind of botch or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , 8. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
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