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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... clothing . Rob . Glouc . Out of ys abyt anon Vortiger hym drow , And clothes , as to kyng bicome , dude on him faire y - now3 . ( 3 ) 8. A habit or custom . ( 4 ) s . An obit , or service for the dead . Apology for the Lollards , p ...
... clothing . Rob . Glouc . Out of ys abyt anon Vortiger hym drow , And clothes , as to kyng bicome , dude on him faire y - now3 . ( 3 ) 8. A habit or custom . ( 4 ) s . An obit , or service for the dead . Apology for the Lollards , p ...
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... cloth , boil them with rose - water , whole mace , and annise seeds , till the substance be thick , spread it upon a fair cloth , draining the whey from it , after let it hang in the same cloth some few hours , then strain it and season ...
... cloth , boil them with rose - water , whole mace , and annise seeds , till the substance be thick , spread it upon a fair cloth , draining the whey from it , after let it hang in the same cloth some few hours , then strain it and season ...
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... cloth . Rider , in his Dictionarie , 1640 , explains it by the Latin word " ulniger . " ALNER , 8. ( 4.-N. ) A purse , or bag to hold money . I wyll the yeve an alner , I - mad of sylk and of gold cler , Wyth fayre ymages thre . Launfal ...
... cloth . Rider , in his Dictionarie , 1640 , explains it by the Latin word " ulniger . " ALNER , 8. ( 4.-N. ) A purse , or bag to hold money . I wyll the yeve an alner , I - mad of sylk and of gold cler , Wyth fayre ymages thre . Launfal ...
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... property in mort- ain , Piers Pl . also a vein swelled with co rupted blood . Essex . A fault , defect , a flaw ; a fault or flaw linen or woollen cloth . Somersetshire , a person cover ry . ern in- ese e- An m- bi- or- AMM AMP 66.
... property in mort- ain , Piers Pl . also a vein swelled with co rupted blood . Essex . A fault , defect , a flaw ; a fault or flaw linen or woollen cloth . Somersetshire , a person cover ry . ern in- ese e- An m- bi- or- AMM AMP 66.
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... Cloth ; apparently som fine kind of fustian , which wor is usually joined with it . His dooblet sleevez of black woorsted upon them a payr of poynets of tawn chamblet , laced along the wreast wyt blu threeden points ; a wealt toward th ...
... Cloth ; apparently som fine kind of fustian , which wor is usually joined with it . His dooblet sleevez of black woorsted upon them a payr of poynets of tawn chamblet , laced along the wreast wyt blu threeden points ; a wealt toward th ...
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