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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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. Front Cover.
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. Front Cover.
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... 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.
... 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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... cover'd ways , To keep the bulwark fronts from battery . Marlowe's Works , i , 128 . Quarrelso ARGISOME , adj . Northampt . ARGOILE , S. ( Fr. argille ? ) article used in alchemical o tions , the exact character of w seems to be ...
... cover'd ways , To keep the bulwark fronts from battery . Marlowe's Works , i , 128 . Quarrelso ARGISOME , adj . Northampt . ARGOILE , S. ( Fr. argille ? ) article used in alchemical o tions , the exact character of w seems to be ...
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... cover a nak body with fig - leaves , & c . King on Jonah , p . 5t But , if we live in an age of indevotic we think ourselves well assoil'd , if be warmer than their ice . 64 Taylor's Great Exemplar , p . ( 2 ) To solve ; to answer ...
... cover a nak body with fig - leaves , & c . King on Jonah , p . 5t But , if we live in an age of indevotic we think ourselves well assoil'd , if be warmer than their ice . 64 Taylor's Great Exemplar , p . ( 2 ) To solve ; to answer ...
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... cover atop to keep out the searching beam of the scortching sunne . Herbert's Travels , 16 Atop the chappell is a globe ( or ste mirrour ) pendant , wherein these li eyed people view the deformity of th sinnes . ATOKNE , ( 1 ) v . To ...
... cover atop to keep out the searching beam of the scortching sunne . Herbert's Travels , 16 Atop the chappell is a globe ( or ste mirrour ) pendant , wherein these li eyed people view the deformity of th sinnes . ATOKNE , ( 1 ) v . To ...
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