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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... fire , set all my hogshead abroach . Shadwell , Bury Fair , 1689 ( 1 ) adj . Broad . Min ABROAD , ABRODE , sheu . ( 2 ) adv . In pieces asunder . Cornw . Away in pieces . Dorset . Spread abroad ( 3 ) adv . Abroad . North . ( 4 ) part ...
... fire , set all my hogshead abroach . Shadwell , Bury Fair , 1689 ( 1 ) adj . Broad . Min ABROAD , ABRODE , sheu . ( 2 ) adv . In pieces asunder . Cornw . Away in pieces . Dorset . Spread abroad ( 3 ) adv . Abroad . North . ( 4 ) part ...
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... fire . To love the Moor . Othello , i , 1 . AFFIRMABLY , adv . Lydgate . With cer- tainty . AFFLIGHT , S. Flight . AFFLIGIT , adj . ( A.-N. ) Afflicted . AFFLUENCY , 8. ( Lat . affluentia . ) Abundance . You may justly wonder at this ...
... fire . To love the Moor . Othello , i , 1 . AFFIRMABLY , adv . Lydgate . With cer- tainty . AFFLIGHT , S. Flight . AFFLIGIT , adj . ( A.-N. ) Afflicted . AFFLUENCY , 8. ( Lat . affluentia . ) Abundance . You may justly wonder at this ...
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... fire ; or the fire itself . In the early writers the form estre e ; r faint or fall down from weakness ;. 43 AIS.
... fire ; or the fire itself . In the early writers the form estre e ; r faint or fall down from weakness ;. 43 AIS.
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... fire , in which is deposited the tinder - box , matches , brushes , & c . Sometimes it is the receptacle for salves , ointments , and other such articles . Norf . ALGE , adv . ( A.-S. ) Altogether . ALGERE , S. ( A.-S. ) A spear used in ...
... fire , in which is deposited the tinder - box , matches , brushes , & c . Sometimes it is the receptacle for salves , ointments , and other such articles . Norf . ALGE , adv . ( A.-S. ) Altogether . ALGERE , S. ( A.-S. ) A spear used in ...
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... fire . ( 3 ) ( 4.-S. nealacean . ) To ap- proach . Bothe wyth bullez and berez , and borez otherquyle , And etaynez , that hym anelede , of the heze felle . Syr Gawayne , p . 28 . ANELING , 8. ( 1 ) One that brings forth one young at a ...
... fire . ( 3 ) ( 4.-S. nealacean . ) To ap- proach . Bothe wyth bullez and berez , and borez otherquyle , And etaynez , that hym anelede , of the heze felle . Syr Gawayne , p . 28 . ANELING , 8. ( 1 ) One that brings forth one young at a ...
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