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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... served in the language of refined society , and which , in many cases , as far as regards the Anglo - Saxon , are not even found in the necessarily imperfect vocabulary of the language in its pure state which we are enabled to form from ...
... served in the language of refined society , and which , in many cases , as far as regards the Anglo - Saxon , are not even found in the necessarily imperfect vocabulary of the language in its pure state which we are enabled to form from ...
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... Cres . , 11 , 1188 . AFORNANDE , adv . Beforehand . Prompt . Parv . AFORNE - CASTE , adj . ( A.-S. ) Pre- meditated . By high imaginacion aforne - caste . Urry's Chaucer . AFORRAN , adv . In store ; in re- serve AFF AFO 33.
... Cres . , 11 , 1188 . AFORNANDE , adv . Beforehand . Prompt . Parv . AFORNE - CASTE , adj . ( A.-S. ) Pre- meditated . By high imaginacion aforne - caste . Urry's Chaucer . AFORRAN , adv . In store ; in re- serve AFF AFO 33.
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... serve ; corrupted from aforehand . North . AFORSE , adv . ( A.-N. ) By ne- cessity . Than ffelle it afforse to fille hem azeyne . Depos . of Rich . II , p . 28 . AFORTHE , adv . ( 4.-S. aforð . ) Al- ways ; continually . And yaf hem ...
... serve ; corrupted from aforehand . North . AFORSE , adv . ( A.-N. ) By ne- cessity . Than ffelle it afforse to fille hem azeyne . Depos . of Rich . II , p . 28 . AFORTHE , adv . ( 4.-S. aforð . ) Al- ways ; continually . And yaf hem ...
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... serve hit forthe . Cookery Receipts 1381 . Alaunder of beef . Take leekes of the lengthe of a spoune , and take parcel and hewe smal , and pouder of pepur , and maree , and tempur hit togedur , and take leeches of beef , and rolle hom ...
... serve hit forthe . Cookery Receipts 1381 . Alaunder of beef . Take leekes of the lengthe of a spoune , and take parcel and hewe smal , and pouder of pepur , and maree , and tempur hit togedur , and take leeches of beef , and rolle hom ...
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... serve yt forth . Cookery Receipts , 1381 . ALKE , 8. An elk . As for the plowing with ures , which I suppose to be unlikelie , because they are in mine opinion untameable , and elkes , a thing commonlie used in the east countries ...
... serve yt forth . Cookery Receipts , 1381 . ALKE , 8. An elk . As for the plowing with ures , which I suppose to be unlikelie , because they are in mine opinion untameable , and elkes , a thing commonlie used in the east countries ...
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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