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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... Look where my abridgement comes , " the sense is doubtful . But in a subsequent passage Hamlet calls the players " the abstract , and brief chronicles of the time . " ABRIGGE , V. ( 1 ) To abridge . ( 2 ) To shield off . Alle myscheffes ...
... Look where my abridgement comes , " the sense is doubtful . But in a subsequent passage Hamlet calls the players " the abstract , and brief chronicles of the time . " ABRIGGE , V. ( 1 ) To abridge . ( 2 ) To shield off . Alle myscheffes ...
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... look There shall be no adrowtry in my ward But what is honest . O. Pl . , x , 299 . A home , because duke Humfrey aye re- mined , Calling this match edcoutrie , as it was . Mirror for Mag . , p . 342 . ADVOWE , v . ( A.N. advouer . ) To ...
... look There shall be no adrowtry in my ward But what is honest . O. Pl . , x , 299 . A home , because duke Humfrey aye re- mined , Calling this match edcoutrie , as it was . Mirror for Mag . , p . 342 . ADVOWE , v . ( A.N. advouer . ) To ...
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... look out . With you again , Beaugard . Agare , ho ! Otway , The Atheist , 1684 . AGARICK , 8. ( Lat . ) The fungus ... looks older in a short space of time . It is sometimes used in Yorkshire in the sense of affecting with concern and ...
... look out . With you again , Beaugard . Agare , ho ! Otway , The Atheist , 1684 . AGARICK , 8. ( Lat . ) The fungus ... looks older in a short space of time . It is sometimes used in Yorkshire in the sense of affecting with concern and ...
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... look to the assize and goodness of bread , ale , and beer . " Kersey . Than left hand land , and left hand sea , with compas long alee , Fetch out aloofe from lands and seas on right hand , see thou flee . Phaer's Virgil , 1600 . It is ...
... look to the assize and goodness of bread , ale , and beer . " Kersey . Than left hand land , and left hand sea , with compas long alee , Fetch out aloofe from lands and seas on right hand , see thou flee . Phaer's Virgil , 1600 . It is ...
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... look not like an amorist ; face would fright her . that Carlell's Passionate Lovers , 1655 . Consume your timorous cringing amorists , that would possess their heav'n , but dare not bleed for't . Durfey , Madam Fickle , 1676 . AMOROSO ...
... look not like an amorist ; face would fright her . that Carlell's Passionate Lovers , 1655 . Consume your timorous cringing amorists , that would possess their heav'n , but dare not bleed for't . Durfey , Madam Fickle , 1676 . AMOROSO ...
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