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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... turn away . Cockeram . ABVOLATE , v . ( Lat . abvolo . ) To fly away . Cockeram . ABWENE , prep . Above . Thane come of the oryenta Ewyne hyme agaynez A blake bustous bere Abwene in the clowdes . Morte Arthure . ABY , v . To abide ; to ...
... turn away . Cockeram . ABVOLATE , v . ( Lat . abvolo . ) To fly away . Cockeram . ABWENE , prep . Above . Thane come of the oryenta Ewyne hyme agaynez A blake bustous bere Abwene in the clowdes . Morte Arthure . ABY , v . To abide ; to ...
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... turn to armlets for great Queens to adore . Beaumont and Fletcher . ADORNATION , 8. ( Lat . ) Adorning . Minshew's Guide into Tongues , 1627 . ADORNE , ( 1 ) v . To adore . ( 2 ) 8 . Spenser . ADOTE , v . To doat . An ornament ...
... turn to armlets for great Queens to adore . Beaumont and Fletcher . ADORNATION , 8. ( Lat . ) Adorning . Minshew's Guide into Tongues , 1627 . ADORNE , ( 1 ) v . To adore . ( 2 ) 8 . Spenser . ADOTE , v . To doat . An ornament ...
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... turn ground into forest . This term is used in the Carta de Foresta , 9 Hen . III . AFFORME , v . ( Lat . ) To conform . AFFORST , adv . Afurst . Thirsty . See Frere and Boy . Not halffe ynowh therof he hadde . Oft he was afforst ...
... turn ground into forest . This term is used in the Carta de Foresta , 9 Hen . III . AFFORME , v . ( Lat . ) To conform . AFFORST , adv . Afurst . Thirsty . See Frere and Boy . Not halffe ynowh therof he hadde . Oft he was afforst ...
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... turn with all my heart like an after - game at lush . Etherige , Comical Revenge , 1669 . AFTER - KINDRed , 8. Remote kin- dred . Chaucer . AFTER - LOVE , S. A second or later love . Sce the Two Gentlemen of i'erona , iii , 1 , and ...
... turn with all my heart like an after - game at lush . Etherige , Comical Revenge , 1669 . AFTER - KINDRed , 8. Remote kin- dred . Chaucer . AFTER - LOVE , S. A second or later love . Sce the Two Gentlemen of i'erona , iii , 1 , and ...
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... turn to a white powder . ALGATE , ALGATES , conj . adv . ( A.-S. al- geats . ) Always ; every way ; by all means . Still used in the North . So entirely me meveth , that I must algate recorde the same , and therein be no flatterer ...
... turn to a white powder . ALGATE , ALGATES , conj . adv . ( A.-S. al- geats . ) Always ; every way ; by all means . Still used in the North . So entirely me meveth , that I must algate recorde the same , and therein be no flatterer ...
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