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 1 |
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... blowing up . That's safe able it . Middl . Game at Ch ( 3 ) To make fit or suitable f God tokeneth and assygneth the tin ablynge hem to ther propre offyces . The 1st Boke of Boe Wherfore what tyme a man dooth v he may in ablynge hym to ...
... blowing up . That's safe able it . Middl . Game at Ch ( 3 ) To make fit or suitable f God tokeneth and assygneth the tin ablynge hem to ther propre offyces . The 1st Boke of Boe Wherfore what tyme a man dooth v he may in ablynge hym to ...
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... blow without being unhorsed . No man ne myghte with strengthe asytte Hys swordes draught . Octovian , 1665 . Ask , ASKER , ASKARD , ASKEL , ARSKE . 8. ( A.-S. apexe . ) A water newt , or lizard . Snakes and nederes thar he fand , And ...
... blow without being unhorsed . No man ne myghte with strengthe asytte Hys swordes draught . Octovian , 1665 . Ask , ASKER , ASKARD , ASKEL , ARSKE . 8. ( A.-S. apexe . ) A water newt , or lizard . Snakes and nederes thar he fand , And ...
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... blow . The word occurs with this explanation in Rider's Dictionarie , 1640. It is used by Shakespeare as a verb active , to ascend , without the particle which now usually ac- companies this word . Until our bodies turn to elements ...
... blow . The word occurs with this explanation in Rider's Dictionarie , 1640. It is used by Shakespeare as a verb active , to ascend , without the particle which now usually ac- companies this word . Until our bodies turn to elements ...
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... blow with bel- lows . ATBRESTE , 7. To burst in pieces . ATCHARE , adv . Ajar . Norf . ATCHEKED , part . p . Choaked . ATCHESON , 8. A coin , of billon ATCHISON , or copper washed with silver , struck under James VI of Scotland , of the ...
... blow with bel- lows . ATBRESTE , 7. To burst in pieces . ATCHARE , adv . Ajar . Norf . ATCHEKED , part . p . Choaked . ATCHESON , 8. A coin , of billon ATCHISON , or copper washed with silver , struck under James VI of Scotland , of the ...
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... blow on a helmet . Palsgrave . ATTAL - SARESIN , s . A term formerly applied by the inhabitants of Cornwall to an old mine that is abandoned . ATTAME , v . ( 1 ) ( A.-N. entamer . ) To commence ; to begin ; to make a cut into ; to ...
... blow on a helmet . Palsgrave . ATTAL - SARESIN , s . A term formerly applied by the inhabitants of Cornwall to an old mine that is abandoned . ATTAME , v . ( 1 ) ( A.-N. entamer . ) To commence ; to begin ; to make a cut into ; to ...
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