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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... kind , which shall contain the obsolete Anglo - Saxon and Anglo - Norman words used by the English writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , many of the obsolete Latin words introduced in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
... kind , which shall contain the obsolete Anglo - Saxon and Anglo - Norman words used by the English writers of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , many of the obsolete Latin words introduced in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
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... kind of taffetas . ALAMORT , ad ( Fr. ) Half dead ; in a dying state ; drooping . Whose soft and royal treatment may suffice , To heal the sick , to cheer the alamort . Fansh . Lusiad , v , 85 . Sometimes written all amort . See Amort ...
... kind of taffetas . ALAMORT , ad ( Fr. ) Half dead ; in a dying state ; drooping . Whose soft and royal treatment may suffice , To heal the sick , to cheer the alamort . Fansh . Lusiad , v , 85 . Sometimes written all amort . See Amort ...
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... kind of precious stone , in the follow- ing passage quoted from a MS . of the 15th century . Here crop yng was of ryche gold , Here parrelle alle of alaran : Here bry dyll was of reler boide , On every side hangyd belly's then . ALARGE ...
... kind of precious stone , in the follow- ing passage quoted from a MS . of the 15th century . Here crop yng was of ryche gold , Here parrelle alle of alaran : Here bry dyll was of reler boide , On every side hangyd belly's then . ALARGE ...
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... kind of boto or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , 8. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
... kind of boto or old sore . Exmoor . ALLERS , 8. An acute kind of boil or carbuncle ALL ALL 54.
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... kind of solemn music . was also the name of seve dances , the new allemaigne , t old , the queen's allemaigne , all which are mentioned in ea books of dance tunes . ALMAIN - LEAP , 8. In dancing , kind of jig . Skip with a rhyme on the ...
... kind of solemn music . was also the name of seve dances , the new allemaigne , t old , the queen's allemaigne , all which are mentioned in ea books of dance tunes . ALMAIN - LEAP , 8. In dancing , kind of jig . Skip with a rhyme on the ...
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