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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... side in the game , which was previ- ously either none or few , has now got to be as many as the other . Dyche . ABOBBED , adj . ( from A.-N. aboby , astonished . ) Astonished . The messangers were abobbed tho , Thai nisten what thai ...
... side in the game , which was previ- ously either none or few , has now got to be as many as the other . Dyche . ABOBBED , adj . ( from A.-N. aboby , astonished . ) Astonished . The messangers were abobbed tho , Thai nisten what thai ...
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... side to the other . In Sussex , when a horse does so , he is said to " earn a gallon of oats . " ( 2 ) Labourers ' wages . Yorksh . ( 3 ) s . A swelling with matter in it . Somerset . ( 4 ) 8. The headland of a field ; same as adland ...
... side to the other . In Sussex , when a horse does so , he is said to " earn a gallon of oats . " ( 2 ) Labourers ' wages . Yorksh . ( 3 ) s . A swelling with matter in it . Somerset . ( 4 ) 8. The headland of a field ; same as adland ...
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... . ( Lat . ) Accord- ing to Huloet , the " light de- scription of a house side or front , where the lyne do answer to the compasse and centrye of everye parte . " Abcedarium , 1552 . ADUN , adv . Down . ADUNATION , 8. ( ADR ADU 26.
... . ( Lat . ) Accord- ing to Huloet , the " light de- scription of a house side or front , where the lyne do answer to the compasse and centrye of everye parte . " Abcedarium , 1552 . ADUN , adv . Down . ADUNATION , 8. ( ADR ADU 26.
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... side . Minsh . AGNITION , 8. ( Lat . agnitio . ) An acknowledgment . Miege . AGNIZE , V. To acknowledge ; to confess ; to know . AGNOMINATE . . ( Lat . ) To name from any meritorious action . Ag- nomination , according to Min- sheu , is ...
... side . Minsh . AGNITION , 8. ( Lat . agnitio . ) An acknowledgment . Miege . AGNIZE , V. To acknowledge ; to confess ; to know . AGNOMINATE . . ( Lat . ) To name from any meritorious action . Ag- nomination , according to Min- sheu , is ...
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... side . Northamptonsh . A - HOIGHT , adv . Elevated ; in good spirits . A - HOLD , adv . To lay a ship a - hold , to stay her or place her so that she may hold or keep to the wind . AHORSE , adv . On horseback . North . AHTE , ( 1 ) 8 ...
... side . Northamptonsh . A - HOIGHT , adv . Elevated ; in good spirits . A - HOLD , adv . To lay a ship a - hold , to stay her or place her so that she may hold or keep to the wind . AHORSE , adv . On horseback . North . AHTE , ( 1 ) 8 ...
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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